From: MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu
Subject: Re: Installing OS/2 over a LAN ?
Organization: CARD
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 21:29:01 GMT

In article <01OCT92.10869668.0069@VM1.MCGILL.CA>                                                                                                      
CCGT@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA (Graham Thorpe) writes:                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                      
>Does anyone know how to install OS/2 2.0 over a network ?                                                                                            
>I have some documentation from an IBM course on OS/2 that                                                                                            
>says there is a program (bundle file - use UNPACK) on diskette 7                                                                                     
>that contains:     SEIMAGE.EXE                                                                                                                       
>                   SEDISK.EXE                                                                                                                        
>                   SEMAINT.EXE                                                                                                                       
>                   SEINST.EXE                                                                                                                        
>(the bundle file is called CID, or something like that)                                                                                              
>                                                                                                                                                     
>Anyone know how to use these programs ?                                                                                                              
>The limited documentation I have indicates that the process involves                                                                                 
>placing images of the OS/2 diskettes on the server, and then the                                                                                     
>client to be installed talks to the server via NETBIOS.                                                                                              
>                                                                                                                                                     
>Any help appreciated.                                                                                                                                
>                                                                                                                                                     
>Graham Thorpe                                                                                                                                        
>McGill University                                                                                                                                    
>Computing Centre                                                                                                                                     
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I recommend the GG24-3780 manual from IBM, it goes into detail about remote ins                                                                       
tall.                                                                                                                                                 
If you are using a NETBIOS Server (like LAN Server) then you will also need a                                                                         
utility package called SRVIFS.  It can be obtained from an IBM SE, or comes                                                                           
with the LAN Server 3.0 beta.                                                                                                                         
Basically you create a set of directories on the server with the programs you m                                                                       
entioned above, and then each disk is in a sub-directory.  Use SRVIFS to share                                                                        
these sub-directories out (LAN Server is not needed).  Then you create two boot                                                                       
 diskettes, with the commands said above, and copy some files from SRVIFS onto                                                                        
these boot disks also.                                                                                                                                
Boot the machine to be installed up with the two floppies, and you are ready                                                                          
for a 15 minute install time over the LAN.  It is very nice not to have to                                                                            
feed all those diskettes.                                                                                                                             
Novell is covered in GG24-3780 as well as TCP/IP NFS.                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                      
Mike Long                                                                                                                                             
Iowa State University