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Sun Fire X4170 M2 and X4270 M2 Servers Installation Guide for Windows Operating Systems |
Part I Windows Server Installations
1. Assisted OS Installation With Sun Installation Assistant (SIA)
3. Installing Windows Server 2008
4. Post Installation of Windows Server 2008
Part II Windows Server System Administrator References
A. Supported Installation Methods
B. Supported Operating Systems
C. BIOS Defaults for New Installations
D. Downloading the ISO Image for the Tools and Drivers DVD
E. Incorporating Device Drivers Into Windows Server 2008 WIM Images for Windows Deployment Services
Location of Device Drivers on Tools and Drivers DVD
Which Device Drivers to Incorporate Into WIM Image(s)
Prerequisites and Task Overview
Create an ImageUnattend.xml Setup Script - Windows Server 2008 (SP2 or R2)
Add Device Driver(s) to Boot WIM - Windows Server 2008 SP2 Only
Map ImageUnattend.xml Setup Script to Windows Server 2008 (SP2 or R2) Install Image
This section is for advanced system administrators who need to incorporate Windows Server 2008 (SP2 or R2) device drivers into Windows Imaging Format (WIM) files.
This appendix assumes that the system administrator is using Microsoft’s Windows Deployment Services (WDS) to deploy the installation of Windows Server 2008 (SP2 or R2) over a network.
Note - This appendix is not intended as a tutorial for WDS or Microsoft’s Windows System Imaging Manager (WSIM). For detailed information about WDS or WSIM, refer to Microsoft’s WDS and WSIM documentation.
Topics in this section include:
Topics included in this section include:
Device Driver Directory Location on Tools and Drivers DVD identifies the location of the device driver directories on the Tools and Drivers DVD.
Note - If you do not have a copy of the Tools and Drivers DVD, you can download the ISO image for the Tools and Driver DVD. For details, see Appendix D, Downloading the ISO Image for the Tools and Drivers DVD
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Device Drivers to Add to WIM Image(s) identifies the device drivers to incorporate in the Windows Server 2008 (SP2 or R2) WIM image(s). Note, the boot WIM image identified in the table is only required for Windows Server 2008 SP2 installations, and the install WIM image identified in the table is required for both Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Server 2008 R2 installations.
Note - Some of the SAS PCIe HBA option cards listed in Device Drivers to Add to WIM Image(s) might not be available for purchase at the time of this publication. To determine which SAS PCIe HBA options card are supported and available for purschase on the Sun Fire X4170 M2 and X4270 M2 Servers, go the one of the following Web sites, as apprpropriate for your server model, and navigate to the appropriate page: http://www.oracle.com/goto/x4170m2 http://www.oracle.com/goto/x4270m2
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Prior to creating the device driver WIM image(s) for Windows Server 2008 (SP2 or R2), ensure that the following tasks are completed in the order specified.
Install and configure the Windows Deployment Services on a server in your network. For details, you can download Microsoft’s Windows Deployment Services Step-by-Step Guide at:
Install the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK). The WAIK contains applications to mount and modify WIM images as well as applications to create and modify XML unattended setup scripts.
Microsoft provides separate WAIK downloads for Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The URLs for these downloads are as follows:
Locate the Windows device drivers on the Tools and Driver DVD. For information about where the device drivers on the Tools and Drivers DVD are located, see Location of Device Drivers on Tools and Drivers DVD.
Establish a network-shared device driver repository. For example:
Create a device driver repository containing the Windows Server 2008 (SP2 or R2) device drivers.
Note that for Windows Server 2008 WDS installation environments, a device driver repository is provided, which you can modify. For Windows Server 2003 SP2 WDS installation environments, a device driver repository is not provided and you must manually create one. The following is an example of how you might want to set up the directory structure for a new device driver repository:
C:\unattend\drivers\{w2K8|W2k8R2}\catalogs\vendor\version
Where:
unattend is the unattend device driver store
drivers is the name for device driver directory
{W2K8 or W2K8R2} is the name for Windows Server 2008 (SP2 or R2) device drivers directory
catalogs is the name for Windows Server 2008 (SP2 or R2) catalog files
vendor is the name of directory for device driver vendor
version is the name of directory for device driver version
Ensure that the directories (folders) in the device driver repository are shared and accessible to the Windows Deployment Services (WDS) during the network installation.
For example, the device driver repository network shares referenced in this appendix are setup as follows:
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Extract the Windows Server 2008 device drivers on the Tools and Drivers DVD and place them into the device driver repository.
For details about where the Windows Server 2008 device drivers are located on the Tools and Driver DVD, see Location of Device Drivers on Tools and Drivers DVD.
If you do not have a copy of the Tools and Drivers DVD, you can download the ISO image for the Tools and Driver DVD. For details, see Appendix D, Downloading the ISO Image for the Tools and Drivers DVD.
The following example demonstrates the directory structure of the device driver repository after copying a SAS PCIe HBA driver (example version number: 1.19.2.64) from the Tools and Drivers DVD to the device driver repository:
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Create an imageunattend.xml Setup Script for Windows Server 2008 (SP2 or R2. For details, seeCreate an ImageUnattend.xml Setup Script - Windows Server 2008 (SP2 or R2) .
For Windows Server 2008 SP2 (only) installations, add the required boot device drivers described in Device Drivers to Add to WIM Image(s) to boot.wim. For details about adding the device drivers to the boot.wim, see Add Device Driver(s) to Boot WIM - Windows Server 2008 SP2 Only .
Map the imageunattend.xml Setup Script to the Windows Server 2008 image. For details, see Map ImageUnattend.xml Setup Script to Windows Server 2008 (SP2 or R2) Install Image.
For Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Server 2008 R2 installations, add the required device drivers described in Device Drivers to Add to WIM Image(s) to the install.wim image.
The following procedures presented are guidelines you can use to add device drivers to the WIM image file(s). These procedures should be performed in the order described.
Create an ImageUnattend.xml Setup Script - Windows Server 2008 (SP2 or R2)
Add Device Driver(s) to Boot WIM - Windows Server 2008 SP2 Only
Map ImageUnattend.xml Setup Script to Windows Server 2008 (SP2 or R2) Install Image
Prior to performing the procedures in this section, you should ensure that all the prerequisites as described in Prerequisites and Task Overview have been met.