Netware 4.1, VMware, and What to do?

Here's the deal, I have an old Novell Netware 4.1 server and it is dying a slow painful death.

I have a ghost image using Ghostcast in a .gho format and copies of all the data files I need. Also I have all the user info in an Access database I can spew out at will easily. So restoring the essential data is not an issue.

My current incarnation of this server works, the hardware is roughly 10 years old and we've been having drive issues lately. It's using 2x 9gb SCSI drives with a small DOS and larger Novell (I assume) partition. Unfortunately the program that it serves over the network is essential to our operation. The unlimited user version of the btrieve database included with 4.1 is essential to our software. It will be replaced, but not for a few months (ugh years?). You might think, upgrade to 4.2 since it's supported or a current version. No can do, this system is planned to go away thus little to no money is there to upgrade.

I have copies of VMware Server and ACE Workstation, plus other older versions.

My dilemma is how to make Novell 4.1 work in VMware. If I install from CD it comes up with issues saying there are no accessible disk drives. I can't seem to find any sort of walkthrough on how to install.