>
> On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, you wrote:
> >I have recently purchased openlinux base as I need a
> >nds capable client to run on my redhat system. Having
> >looked at trying to install this it seems less than
> >straight forward.
> >
> >Has anyone managed to get this working. Converting
> >to a fully openlinux-based system is not viable.
> >
> >Another problem seems to be that, according to
> >the documentation on calderas web site, running the
> >netware client on a token ring network requires
> >some extra file from their ftp site ... which I
> >cant find.
> >
> >The documentation in the base manual is next to
> >non-existant and on the web site relevant only to
> >openlinux standard 1.1
> >
Martin Bartlett wrote:
>
> The problem is that the Netware stuff in Caldera is libc5 but the kernel in
> RH5 is Libc6 - so the nkfs module will not load. I had the same problem. Since I
> do not need NDS I removed the last vestiges of Caldera from my system and used
> the free ncpfs package, but that does not support NDS. Caldera told me, rather
> pointedly I thought, that they would have to do a lot of testing with LibC6
> before the felt 'comfortable' switching to it - the implication seemd to be that
> RH did not test too well. However, I have had no problem with RH5 EXCEPT with
> Caldera compatibility so I said goodbye (for now) to Caldera.
I have never heard of anything more ridiculous than having to
buy and install a whole unix operating system to get a functioning
novel client. Caldera's approach to "open systems" seems to be the
absolute antithesis of likes of those who have written the kernel.
>
> The Token ring thing? Well, as far as I know you just have to recompile the
> kernel with Token Ring capabilities but thats unproven from my end.
>
Token ring works just fine with the ncpmount utility (bindery), the only
documentation that I could find on the caldera site regarding setting
this
up suggests that Token ring does not work with their client.
Richard
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