Installing the software from a UNIX client

When to perform UNIX client steps

Perform the steps described in this section only if you are using a UNIX workstation to install Data ONTAP on the gateway.

This part of the installation involves performing the following procedures in order:

Mounting the gateway root volume on your host
Copying the system files to your client from the CD-ROM
Installing the system files
Note
To perform the installation, you need access to both the gateway's system console and a client system.

To mount the gateway on your UNIX client, complete the following steps.

Step	Action
1	Make files and directories available for mounting by entering the following command on the console: exportfs -a
2	Create a directory on the client where you want to mount the gateway root file system: mkdir /mnt/gfiler /mnt/gfiler is the directory on the client where you want to mount the gateway root file system.
3	Mount the gateway's root file system to the clients's /mnt/gfiler directory: mount gfilername:/ /mnt/gfiler gfilername is the name of the gateway.
4	Change the host directory to /mnt/gFiler. cd /mnt/gFiler /mnt/gfiler is the directory on the client where you mounted the gateway's root file system.

To access the system files from the CD-ROM and copy them to your host, complete the following steps.

Step	Action
1	Mount the Data ONTAP CD-ROM onto your host.
2	From the host, extract the files by entering the following command: *tar xvf /CD-ROM_MNT_PT/ONTAP/release/x86/SYSFILES.TAR* /CD-ROM_MNT_PT is the name of your CD-ROM mount point. release is the Data ONTAP release number on the CD-ROM. Result The `tar` command extracts the files and reports the names; they are tar_image.Z and install_netapp.
3	Complete the procedure described in Installing the system files.

Step

Action

Mount the Data ONTAP CD-ROM onto your host.

From the host, extract the files by entering the following command:

tar xvf /CD-ROM_MNT_PT/ONTAP/release/x86/SYSFILES.TAR

/CD-ROM_MNT_PT is the name of your CD-ROM mount point.

release is the Data ONTAP release number on the CD-ROM.

The tar command extracts the files and reports the names; they are tar_image.Z and install_netapp.

Complete the procedure described in Installing the system files.

To install the system files, complete the following steps.

Step	Action
1	If you want to...	Then...
	Delete the `tar` files after the files are extracted	From the host, enter the following command: ./install_netapp /mnt/gfiler /mnt/gfiler is the directory on the host where you mounted the gateway's root file system.
	Keep the `tar` files after the files are extracted	From the host, enter the following command: ./install_netapp -k /mnt/gfiler /mnt/gfiler is the directory on the host where you mounted the gateway's root file system.
	Result: The install script decompresses and extracts the files.
2	From the client, unmount the gateway's root file system (/) by entering the following commands: cd / umount /mnt/gfiler /mnt/gfiler is the directory on the client where you mounted the gateway's root file system.
3	Complete the procedure in Downloading Data ONTAP to download the boot data on the gFiler.