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 an electronic image
to a shared location, take the following steps:
- 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.
- In the shared location, verify that you now have the following
elements:
- The Rational Programming Patterns installation files 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 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.