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 Creating a Windows Server install CD image in IFS
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As an alternative to using a physical installaction CD, you can install Microsoft® Windows® Server™ on an integrated server using an image of the CD located somewhere in the i5/OS® integrated file system (IFS). This method has several advantages:
- There is no need to load the install media in the IBM i optical drive.
- The installation using an IFS source directory is relatively quick compared to using a CD.
- This method may be useful if you intend to create multiple Windows Server installations on a single IBM i logical partition simultaneously.
- You can send an image of the installation CD to a remote location.
- An IFS copy of the installation media can be used to slipstream a Microsoft service pack with the install media (see Integrating a service pack with Windows Server 2003). This can be useful when a Microsoft service pack is required for the installation drivers or security fixes are desired immediately for the new installation.
The following steps use i5/OS® NetServer™ to define a shared folder in IFS. The shared folder is used to store the install CD image, which can then be used to install a Windows server.
- From System i Navigator, create an IFS directory (folder) to hold CD images:
- Open the IBM i system folder and navigate to File Systems > Integrated File System > Root
- Right click the Root folder and select New Folder...
- For the New folder name value, enter cdimages
- Click OK to create the folder
Here is the IBM i command line method to create the IFS directory:
===> MKDIR DIR('/cdimages')
- From System i Navigator, create a read/write share for the IFS directory (folder) created above:
- Right click the cdimages folder that was created above and select Sharing > New Share...
- For the Description value, enter CD images
- For the Access value, select Read/Write
- Click OK to create the share.
Here is the IBM i command line method to create the share:
===> CALL QZLSADFS PARM(cdimages '/cdimages'
x'00000009' x'00000000' 'CD images'
x'00000002' x'ffffffff' x'00000000')
- From a Windows PC command line, map a drive to the share created above:
C:\> NET USE x: \\ i5host\cdimages
where x: is the mapped drive letter and i5host is the name of the IBM i system.
- From the Windows PC command line, create a directory (folder) to hold the Windows Server CD image:
C:\> x:
where x: is the mapped drive letter.X:\> mkdir ws2003
where ws2003 is the directory that will hold the CD image (Windows Server 2003 in this example).
- From the Windows PC, copy the i386 directory, its contents, and all subdirectories from the Windows Server CD-ROM to the mapped IFS drive/directory that was created above. For example, you could copy the i386 directory from the CD to directory
x:\ws2003
which would place the i386 directory and its contents in IFS directory
/cdimages/ws2003
You should end up with a /cdimages/ws2003/i386 directory with a bunch of files and directories under it.
- You can then use the install CD image stored in IFS to install a Windows server. From the IBM i command line, perform a *FULL Windows install, specifying the above IFS directory in the INSWNTSVR command Windows source directory parameter:
===> INSWNTSVR INSTYPE(*FULL)
WNTSRCDIR('/cdimages/ws2003') ...
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