Installing the software from a Windows client

When to perform Windows client steps

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

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

To map the root directory of your gateway to a drive on your host, complete the following steps.

Step	Action
1	Log in to your host as Administrator or log in using an account that has full control on the gateway C$ share.
2	Map a drive to the C$ directory of your gateway according to the procedure for your version of Windows.

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

Step	Action
1	Insert the Data ONTAP CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive.
2	Go to the following folder on the Data ONTAP CD-ROM: ONTAP\release\X86 release is the release number on the CD-ROM.
3	Double-click setup.exe. Result The setup program displays a dialog box.
4	Make sure that you followed the steps described in the dialog box, then click OK. Result The WinZip® dialog box appears.
5	Follow the WinZip prompts to unzip the file that you downloaded onto the drive to which you mapped the gateway. When appropriate, ensure that the following check boxes are selected: Overwrite Files Without Prompting When Done Unzipping Run... Leave the other options as they are. Result In the dialog box's lower panel, confirmation messages are displayed as files are decompressed.
6	Complete the procedure in Downloading Data ONTAP to download the boot data on the gFiler.