Install Windows Server 2003 Operating System

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This chapter provides information about installing the Windows Server 2003 Operating System (OS).

Note - If you want to create a RAID for your disk, the recommended procedure is to create a RAID before you install the OS. For more information and procedures, see Configure RAID Controller in the BIOS Setup Utility and Prepare RAID Drivers for Delivery.

This chapter includes the following topics:

Task Map for the Windows 2003 Installation

Boot-Time Device Drivers

Prepare RAID Drivers for Delivery

Install Windows Server 2003 Using Local or Remote Media

Install Windows Server 2003 Using PXE Network Environment

Task Map for the Windows 2003 Installation

Use TABLE 2-1 to preview the installation process defined as a series of tasks. The table identifies the tasks required and provides pointers to the instructions for performing that task.

TABLE 2-1 T ask Map for the Windows 2003 Installation
Step	Task	Description	Relevant Topic(s)
1	Review installation prerequisites	Verify that all applicable requirements are met for installing an operating system to a server.	TABLE 1-2 Windows OS Installation Prerequisites
2	Choose an installation method	Evaluate and select an installation method that meets the needs of your infrastructure.	Installation Methods
3	Ensure that the BIOS factory defaults are set	Verify that the factory default settings in the BIOS are set prior to performing the operating system installation.	Verifying BIOS Settings for New Installations
4	Gather the Windows installation media	The Windows OS is shipped with the CD and DVD media and documentation that you will need to install the Windows OS.	You can download or order the media for Windows 2003 at `http://www.microsoft.com`
5	Download server-specific drivers or obtain drivers from Tools and Drivers CD	Depending on your system, some device drivers are required to be installed at boot time. You can obtain these drivers from the Tools & Drivers CD or from the Sun download site.	Installing Server-Specific Device Drivers
6	(Optional) Configure RAID Controller	Follow the instructions to implement RAID using the BIOS Setup utility.	Configure RAID Controller in the BIOS Setup Utility
7	(Optional) Prepare RAID drivers for delivery	Produce the RAID drivers floppy required for the Windows 2003 installation.	Prepare RAID Drivers for Delivery
8	Perform the Windows OS installation	Follow the instructions in this chapter to install the Windows 2003 operating system.	Install Windows Server 2003 Using Local or Remote Media Install Windows Server 2003 Using PXE Network Environment
9	Install driver(s) and post supplemental software, post installation, if necessary	If the Windows operating system does not include the necessary device drivers to support your system, you may need to install additional device drivers. If your system includes RAID controllers, you may need to install supplemental software to support these controllers.	Post Installation

Note - The complete Microsoft Windows operating system installation process is not documented in this section. This section walks you through the steps for booting the Windows Server 2003 media, installing drivers (if necessary) at boot, and partitioning the drive. For additional information, consult the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 product documentation at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/proddoc/default.mspx

Boot-Time Device Drivers

TABLE 2-2 identifies the device drivers that you may need to install at boot time while performing the Windows Server 2003 installation.

TABLE 2-2 Windows 2003 Server-specific Drivers Installed at Boot Time
Device Driver	Description
Intel SATA Driver	The Intel SATA device driver must be available at boot time if installing to a local SATA hard disk drive (HDD). Note - For Windows Server 2003, the default AHCI mode, which can be configured via the System BIOS, needs a boot driver. If configured for IDE mode, no boot driver is required for Intel SATA.
QLogic SAN Driver	The QLogic Fibre Channel (FC) device driver must be installed at installation boot time if your installation target is a QLogic FC Storage Area Network (SAN) device.
Emulex SAN Driver	The Emulex FC device driver must be installed at installation boot time if your installation target is a Emulex FC SAN device.

The boot-time device drivers listed in TABLE 2-2 are included on the Tools & Drivers CD that ships with the server. However, if you do not have the Tools & Drivers CD, you can download these same drivers from the Sun download site. For instructions on downloading the server-specific drivers package, which includes the boot-time device drivers, see Installing Server-Specific Device Drivers.

Prepare RAID Drivers for Delivery

The Sun-supplied hard disk drives for the X2270 are shipped without a RAID configuration. If a RAID configuration is required, you will need to (1) configure the RAID Controller in the BIOS Setup utility, (2) create a RAID driver floppy diskette, then (3) load the RAID driver into the system memory during the Windows Server 2003 installation.

RAID Requirements

Follow the procedure Configure RAID Controller in the BIOS Setup Utility to configure the RAID Controller for Windows Server 2003 installations.

After completing the RAID Controller configuration in the BIOS Setup utility, you will need to prepare the RAID driver for installation. Depending on your chosen method, see either Create Floppy Disk for RAID Driver Installation or Create Floppy Image for RAID Driver Installation.

After preparing the RAID driver for installation, you will need to load the RAID driver into memory (using F6) during the Windows Server 2003 installation. Information describing when the RAID driver is loaded is provided later in Install Windows Server 2003 Using Local or Remote Media.

If you are performing a Windows Server 2003 RIS image installation, you will need to add the RAID driver to the RIS image. For more information, see Add Drivers to a RIS Image.

Create Floppy Disk for RAID Driver Installation

This section provides steps for creating a floppy diskette that contains the RAID driver required during the Windows Server 2003 installation. To prepare the RAID/AHCI driver for installation, you will need to copy the RAID/AHCI driver from the Sun Fire X2270 Tools & Drivers CD to a floppy diskette.

Before You Begin

Prior to performing the following procedure to create a floppy disk, ensure that the following requirements have been met:

The system being used to create the floppy disk is connected to a USB floppy drive

Floppy disk media is available

Sun Fire X2270 Tools & Drivers CD, which contains the 32-bit/64-bit AHCI floppy drivers

To create the floppy diskette, perform the following steps:

1. On a Windows system, do the following:

a. Insert the Sun Fire X2270 Server Tools & Drivers CD into a CD/DVD-ROM drive.

b. Insert a formatted floppy diskette into an attached floppy diskette drive.

2. Depending on your version of Windows, browse to one of the following directories in the Sun Fire X2270 Server Tools & Drivers CD:

drivers/windows/boot/AHCI/flpy/32bit

drivers/windows/boot/AHCI/flpy/64bit

3. Depending on your version of Windows, copy either the 32-bit or 64-bit files to the root directory of the floppy diskette.

4. Proceed to Install Windows Server 2003 Using Local or Remote Media.

Create Floppy Image for RAID Driver Installation

This section provides steps for creating floppy image media that contains the RAID driver required during the Windows Server 2003 installation. To prepare the RAID/AHCI driver for installation, you will need to copy the RAID/AHCI image file from the Sun Fire X2270 Tools & Drivers CD to an image file located on a local network shared directory location.

Before You Begin

Prior to performing the following procedure to prepare the floppy image for device driver installation, ensure that the following requirements have been met:

Sun Fire X2270 Tools & Drivers CD, which contains the 32-bit/64-bit AHCI floppy driver image.

To create the floppy image, perform the following steps:

1. On a Windows system, insert the Sun Fire X2270 Tools & Drivers CD into a CD/DVD-ROM drive.

2. Depending on your version of Windows, browse to one of the following directories in the Sun Fire X2270 Server Tools & Drivers CD:

drivers/windows/boot/AHCI/flp_image/32bit/ahcixx.img

drivers/windows/boot/AHCI/flp_image/64bit/ahcixx.img

3. Depending on your version of Windows, copy the either the 32-bit or 64-bit image file to a local or network shared location where the Sun ILOM Remote Console system can access it during the Windows installation.

For instructions for enabling image file media redirection in the Sun ILOM Remote Console, see the Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager 2.0 User’s Guide.

4. Proceed to Install Windows Server 2003 Using Local or Remote Media.

Install Windows Server 2003 Using Local or Remote Media

The following procedure describes how to boot the Windows Server 2003 operating system from local or remote media. It assumes you are booting the Windows installation media from one of the following sources:

Windows CD or DVD (internal or external CD/DVD)

Windows 2003 ISO image (network repository)

Note - If you are booting the installation media from a PXE environment, refer to Install Windows Server 2003 Using PXE Network Environment for instructions.

Before You Begin

Prior to performing the installation, the following requirements must be met:

All applicable installation prerequisites for installing an operating system should have been met. For further information about these prerequisites, see TABLE 1-2 Installation Prerequisites.

An installation method (for example: console, boot media, and installation target) should have been chosen and established prior to performing the installation. For more information about these setup requirements, see Installation Methods.

After completing this procedure, you will need to perform the post installation tasks as described in Post Installation.

Install Windows Server 2003 Using Local or Remote Media

1. Ensure that the installation media is available to boot.

For example:

For distribution CD/DVD Insert the Windows Server 2003 Distribution media (CD labeled #1 or the single DVD) into the local or remote USB CD/DVD-ROM drive.

For ISO image Ensure that the ISO images are available and that the ILOM Remote Console application is aware of the first ISO image location.

For additional information about how to set up the install media, see TABLE 1-4 Installation Boot Media.

USB floppy Ensure that a USB floppy drive is attached to the local server with the diskette created in Prepare RAID Drivers for Delivery, or a floppy diskette or image is redirected using ILOM. For information, see the Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager 2.0 User’s Guide (820-1188).

2. Reset the power on the server.

For example:

From the ILOM web interface, select Remote Control --> Remote Power Control, then select the Power Cycle option from the Host action drop-down list box.

From the local server, press the Power button on the front panel of the server to turn the server off, then press the Power button again to turn the server on.

From the ILOM CLI on server SP, type: reset /SYS

The BIOS screen appears.

BIOS Boot Screen

3. When the Press F8 for BBS POPUP prompt appears on the BIOS POST screen, press F8.

The BBS POPUP menu allows you to select a boot device.

4. Once the BIOS POST process is complete, the Boot Device menu appears.

Note - The screen that appears in your installation may be different depending on the type of disk controller installed in your server.

5. In the Boot Device menu, select a boot device based on the Windows media installation method you elected to use and press Enter.

For example:

If you elected to use the Windows local delivery method, select CD/DVDW.

If you elected to use the ILOM Remote Console method, select Virtual CDROM.

If you elected to use the Virtual Floppy method, select Virtual Floppy.

6. When prompted with Press any key to boot from CD, quickly press any key.

The Windows Setup process begins.

7. When you see the following prompt at the bottom of the Windows Setup dialog, quickly press F6:

Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver.

Note - The above prompt lasts for approximately five seconds and is easy to miss. If you do not press F6 while the prompt is displayed, the dialog allowing you to specify additional drivers is not displayed and the installation will fail. If this happens, restart the server on which you are performing the installation and go back to Step 3.

After pressing F6, the setup process continues and the following dialog appears. This dialog gives you the option of specifying additional mass storage devices.

Screen shot of Specify Additional Device screen

8. Make sure that the mass storage drivers are accessible according to the mass storage driver installation method that you have selected.

For Floppy Disk Local Mass storage drivers floppy disk is in floppy drive A on the server.

For Floppy Disk Remote Mass storage drivers floppy disk is in the Sun ILOM Remote Console system floppy drive

For Floppy Image floppy.img is accessible from the Sun ILOM Remote Console system

9. Press S to specify additional devices.

A Select Adapter dialog appears listing the available drivers.

10. In the Select Adapter dialog, select the appropriate mass storage controller driver version (Windows 32-bit or 64-bit) that you are installing, then press Enter.

For example, for the X2270 which contains an Intel-based integrated disk controller, select:

Intel(R) ICH10R SATA AHCI Controller (32-bit or 64-bit)

A dialog similar to the following appears stating that the setup will load support for the specified mass storage device.

11. Press Enter to continue.

The Windows setup process continues and a Setup Notification dialog appears.

12. At the Setup Notification dialog, press Enter to continue.

The Welcome to Setup dialog appears.

13. At the Welcome to Setup dialog, press Enter to continue.

The Windows Licensing Agreement dialog appears.

14. To accept the license agreement, press F8.

A dialog appears that shows the existing partitions on the server and the unpartitioned space.

Note - Any previous installations on the server’s boot disk will cause the partitioning dialog to appear.

15. To delete the existing partition, press D.

A confirmation dialog appears to verify that you really want to delete the partition.

16. Press Enter to continue.

A confirmation dialog with a caution notice appears and describes the partition that you are about to delete.

17. Press L to delete the partition.

The partition is deleted and the a dialog appears that shows the unpartitioned space on the server’s disk.

18. To create a partition in the unpartitioned space, press C.

A dialog appears that allows you to specify the size of the new partition.

19. Either accept the default size of the partition to be created or use the Back Space key to delete the size specified and enter a new size and press Enter.

A recommended size of 40,000 megabytes is usually sufficient for a Windows installation. This will leave adequate space on the disk for installations of other media.

A partition confirmation windows appears.

20. Press Enter to accept the partition.

A partition formatting dialog appears.

21. Use the up and down arrow keys to select the <Quick> menu option and press Enter to format the partition.

The setup process formats the partition and copies the files to the Windows installation folders. This process might take several minutes

22. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the initial setup of Windows Server 2003 until you are prompted with the following message:

Remove disks or other media. Press any key to restart.

When this message appears you will need to complete one of the following steps, depending on which driver delivery method you have chosen, to complete the installation:

Floppy Disk Local Remove the floppy disk from the floppy drive on the server.

Floppy Disk Remote Remove the floppy disk from the Sun ILOM Remote Console system.

Floppy Image Deselect Floppy Image from the Sun ILOM Remote Console Devices menu.

Then, press any key to restart the system and complete the Windows Server 2003 Installation.

23. Proceed to Post Installation.

Install Windows Server 2003 Using PXE Network Environment

This section explains the initial information you will need to install the Windows Server 2003 operating system software over an established PXE-based network via a customer-provided Windows 2003 Remote Installation Services (RIS) image.

Note - As an alternative, you can install the Windows 2003 operating system over an established PXE-based network via a customer-provided Windows Deployment Services (WDS) image.

After completing this procedure, you will need to perform the post installation tasks as described in Post Installation.

Before You Begin

The following requirements must be met prior to performing the Windows Server 2003 installation from a RIS image.

To use PXE to boot the installation media over the network, you must:

Configure the network (NFS, FTP, HTTP) server to export the installation tree.

Configure the files on the TFTP server that are necessary for PXE booting.

Configure the Sun server MAC network port address to boot from the PXE configuration.

Configure Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP).

To use a RIS image to perform the installation, you must:

Create the RIS installation image.

Follow the RIS installation instructions in the Windows Server 2003 documentation.

Add the required system device drivers to the RIS installation image.

For instructions, see Appendix A Incorporate Sun Fire Drivers Into a WIM or RIS Image.

Obtain a RIS Administrator password.

Install Windows Server 2003 Using PXE

1. Ensure that the PXE network environment is properly set up and the Windows Server 2003 installation media is available for PXE boot.

Note - Information concerning how to properly set up and deploy a RIS network environment is outside the scope of this installation guide. For these details, see Microsoft’s documentation for deploying and using Remote Installation Services.

2. Reset or power on the server.

For example:

From the ILOM web interface, select Remote Control --> Remote Power Control, then select the Power Cycle option from the Host action drop-down list box.

From the local server, press the Power button on the front panel of the server to turn the server off, then press the Power button again to turn the server on.

From the ILOM CLI on server SP, type: reset /SYS

The BIOS Screen appears.

BIOS Boot Screen

Note - The next events occur very quickly, so focused attention is needed for the following steps. Watch carefully for these messages as they appear on the screen for a brief time. You might want to enlarge the size of your screen to eliminate scroll bars.

3. Press F8 to specify a temporary boot device.

The Please Select Boot Device menu appears.

4. In the Please Select Boot Device menu, select the appropriate PXE installation boot device and press Enter.

The PXE installation boot device is the physical network port configured to communicate with your network installation server.

Note - The boot device options shown on the following Select Boot Device dialog may be different from the options listed on your screen.

The Boot Agent dialog appears.

5. In the Boot Agent dialog, press F12 for a network service boot.

The Welcome to Client Installation wizard appears.

6. In the Welcome to Client Installation wizard, press Enter to continue.

The next dialog prompts you for a user name, password, and domain name.

7. In the user name and password dialog, type your user name and password, then press Enter.

Use the Tab key to move between fields. The Windows Server 2003 version dialog appears.

8. In the Windows Server 2003 version dialog, select the version (32-bit or 64-bit) you are installing, then press Enter.

The Windows Server 2003 operating system choice dialog appears.

9. In the OS choice dialog, select the OS option you are installing, then press Enter.

Note - The OS choice dialog identifies the names of the OS images that are available for you to install from your RIS server. The OS choice dialog from your RIS server will list different options from the ones shown in the example dialog below.

A Caution dialog appears.

10. In the Caution dialog, press Enter to continue.

The Installation Information dialog appears.

11. In the Installation Information dialog, press Enter to continue.

The Administrator Password dialog appears.

12. In the Administrator Password dialog, specify an OS Administrator password and press Enter.

Note that this password is assigned to the OS installation target.

You will be asked to confirm the password.

13. In the Administrator Password Confirmation dialog, retype the password and press Enter.

The Windows Setup starts and a message appears that the setup is formatting the partition.

14. Proceed to Post Installation.