Installing CMDGODI.LAN under DOS or Windows 3.1

To install CMDGODI.LAN, use Novell's Client 32 installation program. The Novell installation utility installs all required client software and creates a STARTNET.BAT file which contains the commands required to load the driver, protocol, and requester. The STARTNET.BAT file should look similar to the following example:

nios
load lslc32.nlm
load cmsm
load tokentsm
load cmdgodi.lan [command-line options]
load sroute
load ipx
load client32

Driver parameters can be specified on the "LOAD CMDGODI.LAN" command line. For example, "LOAD CMDGODI.LAN PORT=A20 FRAME=TOKEN-RING". Note that driver parameters are not put in the NET.CFG file. We recommend that you specify the "OS=DOS" parameter, so that CMDGODI allocates less host buffer memory.

All modules (except part of NIOS.EXE and real-mode protocol interfaces) are loaded into extended (XMS) memory, using only approximately 4K bytes of conventional memory. Note that an XMS manager (such as HIMEM.SYS) must be loaded for NIOS to load.

NIOS will use upper memory blocks (UMBs) if they are available in preference to conventional memory. UMBs are blocks of memory allocated by a memory manager, such as EMM386, in the 640Kb-1Mb region. To make UMBs available, a memory manager must be loaded and the "DOS=UMB" command must be added to CONFIG.SYS. Refer to your memory manager documentation for more details.