Quick Beginnings_ Installing OS／2 Warp Server for e-business

Contents

Figures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

About This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

Who Should Read This Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

Conventions and Terminology Used in This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

Double-Byte Character Set (DBCS) Information . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

Related Books and Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii

OS/2 Warp Server for e-business Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . xii

Redbooks about OS/2 Warp Server for e-business . . . . . . . . . . xvi

Technical Databases for OS/2 Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi

Chapter 1. Overview of OS/2 Warp Server for e-business . . . . . . . . 1

OS/2 Base Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Logical Volume Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Journaled File System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Year 2000 and the Euro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Updated Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

File and Print Sharing Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

TCP/IP Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Netscape Communicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Java Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Neighborhood Browser Enabler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Windows NT User Account Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

LDAP Client Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

I2O Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Tivoli Management Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Lotus Domino Go Webserver and IBM WebSphere Application Server . . . . . 6

Personally Safe ’n’ Sound Backup and Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Advanced Print Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Remote Access Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Additional New Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Replaced or Discontinued Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Chapter 2. Requirements for the Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Supported Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Hard Disk Space Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Keyboards Supported during Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Display and Graphics Adapter Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Chapter 3. Preinstallation Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Boot Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Logical Volume Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

LVM Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

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Logical Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

File System Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Journaled File System (JFS). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

High Performance File System (HPFS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

386 High Performance File System (386 HPFS) . . . . . . . . . . . 23

FAT File System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Considerations for Sharing Files in a Multinational Environment . . . . . . 24

Chapter 4. Installing and Configuring the Server . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Installing to a System with Existing Partitions or Operating Systems. . . . . . 26

CHKINST System Checking Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

LVM Volume Conversion Utility (VCU). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Preparing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Starting the Installation with a CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Starting the Installation with Diskettes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Selecting the Installation Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Formatting the Installation Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Selecting the File System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Installing and Configuring Hardware and Software Options. . . . . . . . . 33

Installing and Configuring System Hardware. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Selecting Features to Install . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Installing and Configuring Server Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Installing Hardware and Software Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Configuring the Server before Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Registering OS/2 Warp Server for e-business . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Chapter 5. Creating and Managing Volumes and Hard Disk Partitions. . . . 53

Managing Volumes with the LVM Logical View . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Expanding a Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Deleting a Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Hiding a Volume from OS/2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Changing a Volume Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Changing a Drive Letter Assigned to a Volume. . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Setting a Volume Installable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Setting a Volume Startable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Adding a Volume to the Boot Manager Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Removing a Volume from the Boot Manager Menu . . . . . . . . . . 60

Creating a New Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Installing Boot Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Removing Boot Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Setting or Changing Boot Manager Startup Values . . . . . . . . . . 64

Managing Partitions with the LVM Physical View . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Changing the Disk Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Creating a New Partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Deleting an Existing Partition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Changing the Partition Name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Changing the Volume Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Chapter 6. Additional Installation and Configuration Options. . . . . . . 69

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Changing Hardware and Software Support after Installing OS/2 Warp Server for

e-business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Changing Support for Server Components after Installing OS/2 Warp Server for

e-business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Creating a Volume for Receiving Memory Dumps . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Dump Volume Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Setting Up a Dump Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Formatting a Volume for a File System after Installation. . . . . . . . . . 72

Resetting Windows and Boot Manager Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Setting Boot Manager as Startable following Windows NT/98/95 Installation 72

Adding a Windows Partition to Boot Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Creating Installation Diskettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Modifying the Installation Diskettes for New Hardware . . . . . . . . . . 74

Adding a Device Driver to the Installation Diskettes . . . . . . . . . . 75

Replacing a Device Driver on the Installation Diskettes . . . . . . . . . 76

Adding or Modifying Parameters for Existing Device Drivers . . . . . . . 76

Creating Space on the Installation Diskettes for Device Drivers . . . . . . 76

Replacing System Files on the Installation Diskette . . . . . . . . . . 77

Installing MPTS with Strong Encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Installing Lotus Domino Go Webserver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Installing IBM WebSphere Application Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Autostarting Neighborhood Browser Enabler after Installation . . . . . . . . 80

Configuring a PPP Server Ethernet Bridge after Installing OS/2 Warp Server for

e-business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Appendix A. File System Comparison Chart. . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Appendix B. Troubleshooting Installation Problems . . . . . . . . . . 89

CD-ROM Drive Not Detected. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

VCU Has Detected Corrupt Partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Backing Up Data on a Corrupted Partition during Installation . . . . . . . 90

Partition Cannot Be Made Bootable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Log Files Created during Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Problems During Diskette Portion of Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Installing to a Laptop System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Problems Installing to an IBM ThinkPad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Display Problems after Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Appendix C. Partitioned Removable Media Considerations . . . . . . . 95

Appendix D. Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101