NOVELL TECHNICAL INFORMATION DOCUMENT

TITLE:              Loader Replacement for SERVER.EXE
DOCUMENT ID:        TID000449
DOCUMENT REVISION:  A
DATE:               01JUL93
ALERT STATUS:       Yellow
INFORMATION TYPE:   Symptom Solution
README FOR:         XLD386.EXE

NOVELL PRODUCT and VERSION:
NetWare 3.11

ABSTRACT:
The XLOAD.EXE file is a utility that replaces a section of the NetWare 386
SERVER.EXE file known as the loader. The loader is a section of the
operating system that contains hardware dependent code.  It is this piece
of code that is responsible for much of the initialization that occurs when
NetWare 386 is first executed.
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Self-Extracting File Name:  XLD386.EXE

Files Included     Size     Date        Time

  XLD386.TXT          (This File)
  LDR001.PTF      52920   11-06-91      4:55p
   XLOAD.EXE      13872    8-06-91      4:47p
  LDR001.DOC       3200    7-06-92     11:00a


                     README FOR XLOAD.EXE
This utility is intended for NetWare 386 v3.11 (any-user version).

XLOAD.EXE is a utility which replaces a section of the NetWare 386
SERVER.EXE file known as the loader. The loader is a section of the
operating system that contains hardware dependent code. It is this piece of
code that is responsible for much of the initialization that occurs when
NetWare 386 is first executed.

Prior to the release of XLOAD, any fixes to the loader had to be done in
the form of a static patch to the SERVER.EXE file. Now, fixes are made
directly to the loader source code, and a new loader file is generated.
XLOAD replaces the old loader with the new loader file containing all of
the fixes. Subsequent fixes will be added to the most recent loader file,
so that the latest released loader will contain all previous fixes, as well
as any new fixes.

New loader files will have the following file name: LDRxxx.PTF, where xxx
can be a number from 001 to 999. This number will begin with 001,
representing the first fixed loader released. Subsequent loader files will
increment this number. Since it contains all previous fixes, only the
latest loader file will available from Novell at any given time.

Documentation for LDRxxx.PTF and what fixes are included are contained in
LDR001.DOC included with this .EXE file.

The syntax for XLOAD is as follows:

             XLOAD loaderFileName [serverFileName]

where loaderFileName is the full path name of the LDRxxx.PTF file, and
serverFileName is the full path name of the server file (default is
SERVER.EXE). There must be at least 1 MB of free space in the same
directory as the server file in order for XLOAD to operate correctly.

XLOAD will not directly modify the original server file; however, the
extension of the original server file name will be changed to .OLD. Upon
completion, two server files will exist in the destination directory. The
new server file will have the same name as the original server file. It
will have a different file size (since the loader size can be different),
and will be stamped with the current date/time. The new server file will
contain serialization information identical to the original server file.
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