Rational Programming Patterns

Copying the installation image to a shared drive or server

If you are planning to install silently on multiple systems, you must copy the installation image to a location on a shared drive where other systems in your intranet can access it.

To copy the installation image from physical installation disks to a shared location, take the following steps:
  1. Insert the Rational® Programming Patterns installation disk into the DVD drive.
  2. Copy the contents of the disk into the shared location where you want to store the installation image.
  3. You can make other offerings that are bundled with Rational Programming Patterns (Rational Developer for System z® for example) available for silent installation. Two cases are then possible.
    • If the bundled offering is contained on a single installation disk, copy the contents of that installation disk to the directory you created in Step 1.
    • If the bundled offering includes multiple installation disks, perform the following steps.
      1. Create a directory in your shared location to contain the product installation files for the bundled offering. You name this directory as you want.
      2. Create a diskN directory for each installation disk in the directory you created. N is the number of the installation disk. Copy the contents of each installation disk into the corresponding diskN directory you created for that disk.
    • Create the response file.
    • Perform the silent installations.
To copy the installation image from an electronic image to a shared location, take the following steps:
  1. Extract each of the compressed files that you downloaded for Rational Programming Patterns and any bundled offerings you want to make available for silent installations to the shared location where you want to store the image. Alternatively, you can extract the compressed files on your local workstation and then copy the uncompressed files and directories to the shared location.
  2. In the shared location, verify that you now have the following elements:
    • The Rational Programming Patterns installation disks must be at the root of the shared directory.
    • A directory must also be created at the root of the shared directory for each bundled offering that you copied to your shared location. Create a diskN directory for each installation. N is the number of the installation disk
    • Create the response file.
    • Perform the silent installations.

Alternatively, you can copy your installation image to a repository on an HTTP web server and install silently using the repository. To create a repository, you must use the IBM® Packaging Utility. For more information, see Appendix: IBM Packaging Utility.


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