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The Dosgen Utility - Novell Network
DocumentID: 652637
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:29:17 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Solutions: Support operators should not help customers with Dosgen. This information is offered only to point out what to look out for, and where to refer customers if they experience these problems.

If either of the situations listed below are true, the user has a chip on their network card that tells the card to pull the boot information from the network.

1.      Users are getting messages stating they need to increase the number of files in the CONFIG.SYS, and raising the amount has no apparent effect.

2.      The user gets a message "Novell Remote Reset" on the screen when they reboot.


3.      A user is on a diskless workstation and has to modify the file handles available in the CONFIG.SYS file.

This is how the process works:

The user creates a bootable disk with files like the AUTOEXEC.BAT and the CONFIG.SYS included. No extra files should be on the boot disk. If there are any extra files, they will be included in the final boot file. The Dosgen Utility should be run from a station that has a disk drive. For information on how it works and how to use it, consult the Novell Supervisor's Guide.
DO NOT WALK ENDUSERS THROUGH DOSGEN !!
A file called NET$DOS.SYS will be created in the SYS:LOGIN directory. If the user has different boot configurations, you will see a reference file with the name BOOTCONT.SYS in the login directory. The BOOTCONT.SYS file is a packed file that contains the DOS boot files, COMMAND.COM, CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT and all device drivers that are on the boot disk.


The user will have to go through the whole process of recreating the boot disk and running Dosgen every time they need to alter any of the files that are on the original boot disk.

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