Master setup disk

Every product is packaged and delivered differently. Some products provide a master setup disk, a prepackaged collection of offerings 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. We cannot add offerings to the prepackaged master setup disk. However, we can omit offerings by not downloading and extracting them.

Procedure

To use a master setup disk to install multiple offerings:

  1. Download the master setup disk and all of the offering-specific disk sets.

    If we have an IBM Passport Advantage account, we can download the master setup disk from the Passport Advantage site.

  2. 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 containing 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 we can identify the folder that is related to the master setup disk.

  3. 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.

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