Incorporating Sun Fire Drivers Into a RIS Image

C H A P T E R 9

This chapter is intended for advanced system administrators who need to incorporate their Sun server driver package into a Remote Installation Services (RIS) image.

Note - This information applies only to the Sun Fire X4100 and Sun Fire X4200 servers. It does not apply to the Sun Fire X4100 M2 or Sun Fire X4200 M2.

This chapter is not a tutorial on RIS; it provides guidance on how to incorporate the Sun Fire X4100 or X4200 server-specific drivers into a RIS image.

This chapter covers the following sections:

Determining Required Drivers

Adding Drivers to the RIS Image

Determining Required Drivers

The server-specific drivers that must be incorporated into a RIS image are shown in TABLE 9-1 in Sun Fire X4100 and X4200 Server-Specific Drivers for RIS Installation for the Sun Fire X4100 and X4200 servers.

TABLE 9-1 Sun Fire X4100 and X4200 Server-Specific Drivers for RIS Installation
Device	Required for 32-bit Windows Server 2003	Required for 64-bit Windows Server 2003
AMD-8131/AMD-8132 HyperTransport IOAPIC Controller	Yes	No
AMD-8111 High Precision Event Timer	Yes	No
AMD-8131 HyperTransport PCI-X Tunnel	Yes	Yes
AMD K8 Processor	Yes	Yes
AMI Virtual Floppy	Yes	Yes
LSI 1064 HBA	Yes	Yes

Adding Drivers to the RIS Image

In the following procedure, RemoteInstall\Setup\Language\Images\Dir_name\Arch refers to the image located on the RIS server where the drivers will be added.

Language is the language of the installed operating system (English, for example).

Dir_name is the directory where the RIS image is installed.

RIS_Image refers to the root of your Windows image on the RIS server.

Arch refers to the Architecture associated with your Windows image: i386 (32-bit) or amd64 (64-bit)

To Add Drivers to the RIS Image

1. Create the following directories in RIS_Image (root of your Windows image on the RIS server.):

$OEM$\textmode

$OEM$\$1\Sun\Drivers

2. Extract the contents of DriverPack.zip to a temporary location, making sure to maintain the directory structure.

3. Update the RIS_Image with the platform-specific drivers:

For 32-bit, copy the contents of the DriverPack\32-bit folder to the RIS_Image\$OEM$\$1\Sun\Drivers folder, making sure to maintain the directory structure.

For 64-bit, copy the contents of the DriverPack\64-bit folder to the RIS_Image\$OEM$\$1\Sun\drivers folder, making sure to maintain the directory structure.

4. Copy the contents of the RIS_Image\$OEM$\$1\Sun\Drivers\lsi folder to the RIS_Image\$OEM\textmode folder. (After copying the contents, you can delete the RIS_Image\OEM$\$1\Sun\Drivers\lsi folder).

5. Copy the contents of the RIS_Image\$OEM$\$1\Sun\Drivers\RIS folder to the RIS_Image\$OEM$\textmode folder. (After copying the contents, you can delete the RIS_Image\OEM$\$1\Sun\Drivers\RIS folder).

6. Copy all the files from the RIS_Image\$OEM$\$1\Sun\Drivers\nvidia\RIS folder to the Arch folder. (After copying the files, you can delete the RIS_Image\$OEM$\$1\Sun\Drivers\nvidia\RIS folder).

7. Create an answer file using the method described in the Microsoft TechNet article "Creating an Answer File with Setup Manager". The article can be found at:

http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/78421630-6fcc-4604-a888-bd9c84244a5b1033.mspx

8. Make the following changes to the .sif file that is used for installation.

For readability, the OemPnpDriversPath information has been shown on multiple lines. The information must be entered on a single line:

TABLE 9-2 Sun Fire X4100 and Sun Fire X4200 Server .sif File Changes
32-bit	64-bit
`[Unattended] OemPreinstall = yes OemPnpDriversPath=“\Sun\Drivers\amd\8111\hpet;\Sun\Drivers\amd\8131\IOAPIC;\Sun\Drivers\amd\8131\PCIX;\Sun\Drivers\ami” [MassStorageDrivers] "LSI Logic Fusion-MPT SAS Driver (32-bit)" = OEM [OEMBootFiles] lsi_sas.inf lsi_sas.sys lsinodrv.inf s2k332.cat txtsetup.oem`	`[Unattended] OemPreinstall = yes OemPnpDriversPath=“\Sun\Drivers\amd\8131\PCIX;\Sun\Drivers\amd\cpu;\Sun\Drivers\ami” [MassStorageDrivers] "LSI Logic Fusion-MPT SAS Driver (64-bit)" = OEM [OEMBootFiles] lsi_sas.inf lsi_sas.sys lsinodrv.inf s2k3am64.cat txtsetup.oem`

9. Stop and start the Remote Installation Service (BINLSVC) on the RIS server.

To do this, type the following commands at the command prompt and press Enter after each command:

net stop binlsvc

net start binlsvc