Installing Network and Administrative Client Software
Creating Installation Diskettes
Product Manual
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To create client diskettes at the Advanced Server command prompt
1. Log on to Advanced Server console as "root".
2. Enter the following command located in the
/var/opt/lanman/bin
directory:
makeclients [-f] -d [drives | -D <devices> ] <clientpkg>
where
The
makeclients
program will prompt you for each diskette in the set of client disks, format
them in MS-DOS format, and populate them with the client software.
To create client installation diskettes from an MS-DOS client computer
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Log on at an MS-DOS client computer as an administrative user.
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Connect to the
MSCLIENT
share on the Advanced Server by typing the following
command at the DOS prompt:
net use <d:> \\<servername>\msclient
Replace
<d:>
with the drive letter and <
servername>
with the name of the server.
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Change to the drive <
d:
> that connects to the
MSCLIENT
share.
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Change to the directory on the shared resource that contains the client package for
which you want to make diskettes:
<d:> cd \images\<client directory>
-f
Disables formatting of the diskettes.
-d <drives>
This parameter is not supported.
-D <device>
Specifies the disk device. On Reliant UNIX-N the default is
/dev/at/vfx3ht.
<clientpkg>
The name of the package for which you wish to create disks.
Options are lanman, msclient, tcp32wfw and update.wfw.
