Variable exceeds maximum length... (Networking Products)
At 16 APR 1998 05:03:05PM Mike O'Neal wrote:
Hello everyone:
During installation of the 1.5 NLM upgrade I received the message:
"Variable exceeds maximum length…" over and over again after selecting the IPX-Network Driver from a pop-up, had to reboot. Environment is Novell 4.11, DOS 6.22 workstation with *no* expanded memory, 620K conventional free. I had to restore from tape to get back to square one, any ideas on why this happened?
TIA,
Mike O'Neal
At 16 APR 1998 05:17PM John Duquette wrote:
Mike,
How did you get the VLM loaded and have 620k free?
If I had to guess I would say that the IPX driver did not cleanly copy into your AREV system and as a result you had a bad revboot.
We did test the both the install and upgrade on DOS 6.22, although the workstations all had EMS available.
Can you perform the upgrade on a machine with ems?
John Revelation
At 17 APR 1998 09:28AM Mike O'Neal wrote:
Hello John, thanks for the response.
]How did you get the VLM loaded and have 620k free?
Dunno, didn't look at config.sys or autoexec.bat, that's what MEM said, though.
]Can you perform the upgrade on a machine with ems?
Yes, I'll try that, thanks.
Mike
Mike
John Revelation
At 17 APR 1998 04:48PM Mike O'Neal wrote:
Hello John:
]If I had to guess I would say that the IPX driver did not cleanly ]copy into your AREV system and as a result you had a bad revboot.
]Can you perform the upgrade on a machine with ems?
Tried it with the same results. One time I tried it without loading LHIPXTSR and one time I tried it *with* loading LHIPXTSR. Both times the process crashed and we had to reboot and restore. REVBOOT was not updated, but 13-15 other REV* files were. SYSOBJ became ] 4GB(!!)
So… back to square one. Might try to run it through a Windows machine next, but would like your thoughts again. Perhaps a bad diskette?
Thanks,
Mike