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Setting up the server
You can either share the CD drive on the server, or copy the installation images onto a disk and share the directory on that disk.
You can share a CD drive on Linux or UNIX with any other supported Linux or UNIX system, but not with Windows. You can share a Windows CD drive only with other Windows systems.
- If you want to share a copy of the installation image, create
the copy:
- Create a directory on the server to store the installation images:
- Linux and UNIX
- Enter the following command:
where instbroker is the directory into which you copy the product files.mkdir /instbroker
- Windows
- Enter the following command:
where m is the drive on which you want to store the installation images and instbroker is the directory on that drive.md m:\instbroker
If you are creating directories for the WebSphere® Message Broker Toolkit on Linux on x86, Linux on x86-64 or Windows, you must create all three disk subdirectories in the same directory, for example:
/instbroker/disk1 /instbroker/disk2 /instbroker/disk3
Where each subdirectory, for example disk1, is the root level of the corresponding CD image.
This structure ensures that the installation program does not prompt for location, and does not fail because it cannot find the right images.
- Insert and mount the appropriate CD in the drive as described in Accessing CDs and DVDs on the local system. The installation
programs for the runtime components and the WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit are on separate CDs; insert
the correct CD for the components that you want to install from this
server.
If you have inserted a runtime or toolkit CD on Windows and autorun is enabled, the Launchpad is started. When the initial window opens, click Cancel to close it.
- Copy the complete contents of the CD to the new directory.
- Linux and UNIX
- Enter the following command:
cp -rf /cdrom/. /instbroker
- Windows
- Enter the following command:
where f is the CD drive.xcopy f:\*.* m:\instbroker /e
- Create a directory on the server to store the installation images:
- Grant users access to the drive that contains the product code.
These instructions are the same for a disk drive on which you have
copied the CD contents,
and for the CD drive
itself.
- AIX®
- Either type smit and click , or enter the fast path command smitty mknfsexp. Complete the fields as appropriate and press Enter.
- HP-UX and Linux
- Use the exportfs command. The following example
gives all users read-only access using NFS:
where /instbroker represents the CD drive or the directory that contains the CD copy.exportfs -i -o ro /instbroker exportfs -a
- Solaris
- Use the share and exportfs commands.
The following example gives all users read-only access using NFS:
where "Broker LAN server" is an optional description and /instbroker represents the server CD drive or directory containing the CD copy.share -F nfs -o ro -d "Broker LAN server" /instbroker exportfs -a
- Windows
- Open Windows Explorer and right-click the drive that you want to share. Click Sharing and follow the instructions on the Properties dialog box.