I need some expert advice please! I have a Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop. I have to upgrade the PC to W2K for a user to take home and connect thru modem to the internet. Originally, it had W98 installed. The laptop also had Novell installed and I didn't delete this beforehand since I didn't thnk it was necessary. (We don't have the laptop's network cable so I can't connect it to our network.)

Apparently I installed the server part of the software rather than the regular part. My problem is that everytime I boot the laptop, I'm getting the Novel login screen (after the ctl-alt-del prompt) and I have no way of connecting it to the network so I can't sign in. (I don't have the user's password either since he's long gone.)

I can't use a prompt to reload the correct version of the software and the Novell prompt just takes me in a loop because I can't sign on.

Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!