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SMALL PROGRAMMING ENHANCEMENTS (U400005):
IX36893 A new install option has been added to install over a network.
NETWORK INSTALL
Requirements:
2 Boot diskettes (Generic as supplied from 1.3, the Non-SCSI
boot diskettes will not function properly.)
1 Installation Diskette
1 Network Installation Option Diskette
Information: You will need to have the following information to
complete the network installation.
Remote host name and Remote net address:
Network address and name of the server that contains the
AIX 1.3 image.
Local host name and Local net address
Network address and name of the machine you are installing.
Netmask
A bitmask that will subdivide your network into smaller subnets.
If you do not know this value, see your system
administrator.
Network Device
The supported types of networks are Token Ring and Ethernet.
For Token Ring enter tk0 (default), For Ungerman Bass
Ethernet enter net0.
Route Thru and Route Machine Address
Use this if you need to use a gateway to get to
your server machine.
Network address and name of the machine you are routing through.
Remote filesystem
Mountable file system of the server.
Image path and name
AIX 1.3 base image name.
The following are the questions that you will be asked
during the network installation. The parenthesized items are the
defaults and will be selected if you just press enter at an item without entering any information.
Remote host name (servergate)
Remote net address (129.35.25.15)
Local host name (Your_machine_name)
Local net address (Your_machine_network_addr)
Netmask (0xfffff000)
Network Device (tk0)
Route thru (NONE)
Route machine address()
Remote filesystem (/images/130)
Image path and name (images/opsys)
Procedures:
Normal AIX 1.3 installation is done in two phases.
Phase I:
Install as normal, using the installation diskette.
Phase II:
1) Choose "Boot from Diskette"
2) Set the "Run system from hard disk" option to yes.
3) Choose "Network Install"
You will be prompted to insert the Network Installation
Option diskette.
Insert it and press enter.
Answer the questions using the information you gathered earlier.
Note: When installing an ISA bus machine over token ring, make sure the adapter attached to the net you wish to use has the factory default
settings for a primary token ring adapter. Once this is done,
netinstall will proceed exactly as on a Microchannel machine.
CREATING INSTALL IMAGES FOR NETWORK INSTALLATION
Procedure for setting up a server for the purpose of using the
"Network Install" option, when installing AIX.
1) Find out exactly how much space you will need on the install
server. The amount of space needed depends upon what you are planning to install. Information about how much space is needed can be found on page
2-7 and 2-8 of the "Installing and Customizing the Operating System"
manual. (The operating system takes roughly 22 megabytes.)
2) Run the 'minidisks' command and create a partition at least
twice the size of the image to be made. Therefore, you should have a partition of approximately 44 megabytes to create an image for the
operating system. Name the partition /images and create it to be automatically mounted and read/write.
3) Change directories to /images as follows:
cd /images
4) Restore the operating system into the directory that is mounted
on the minidisk with the command:
restore -xvf /dev/fd0
5) AIX will prompt you to mount volume 1 on /dev/fd0 and will
continue asking for the diskettes until you have restored the entire
operating system. (There are 15 operating system diskettes.)
6) When completed with the restore, create a backup file of the
contents of the directory that was just created:
find . -print | backup -ivf /images/opsys
7) The file /images/opsys will become your network install image
for the operating system. You can follow the same pattern as above to
create network install images for the other Licensed Program Products, replacing the space requirements, disks to be used, and the name of the network install image appropriately.
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