Every product is packaged and delivered differently. Some products provide a master setup
disk, a prepackaged collection of offerings that is contained on a single disk. The master setup
disk, which contains a table of contents that lists the offerings that are included on the disk,
references other disk sets to install multiple offerings. You cannot add offerings to the
prepackaged master setup disk. However, you can omit offerings by not downloading and extracting
them.
Procedure
To use a master setup disk to install multiple offerings:
- Download the master setup disk and all of the offering-specific disk sets.
If you have an IBM®
Passport Advantage® account, you can download
the master setup disk from the Passport Advantage site.
- Extract the ESD images into a common root directory. The system automatically generates a
subdirectory structure that is similar to this structure:
Master_Setup
SubdirectoryForOfferingA/disk1/
SubdirectoryForOfferingA/disk2/
SubdirectoryForOfferingB/disk1/
where
the names of the subdirectories that contain the offerings are short names of the offerings.
Example:RAD_Setup
rtc_600/disk1/
rtc_600/disk2/
rad_950/disk1/
The Master_Setup directory usually contains the
'setup' string so that you can identify the folder that is related to the master
setup disk.
- Go to the Master_Setup directory and perform one of the
following actions:
- If the directory contains the launchpad program, double-click
Launchpad to start the installation.
- If the directory does not contain the launchpad program, start Installation
Manager and add
the master setup disk path as a repository location. Then, click
Install.
Results
The system locates the repostiory.config file and starts the installation. For
more information about the repostiory.config file and the ESD master setup disk
repository, see Repositories.