Question about installation from a CD...

We have several remote locations which are attached to our centralized
instance of OneWorld.
Most users at these locations use JAS or WTS, but a few use fat clients.
The bandwidth
is sufficient to make it possible for them to work in OW, but it's a very
long process for them
to install packages. I know it's been mentioned here before that an answer
to this is to create
a CD to send them to install from... how is this accomplished? I've read
the Product Packaging
guide, and it seems it's only useful for creating a CD to update a separate
installation with its
own deployment server. Is this

I studied this issue before. But OneWorld Xe packages are sized over 2G so that is no CD which can hold even 1 Xe package. Perhap DVD can be a media for remote installation idstribution. This option seemed to work with older version of World.

Alvin

Scotty,
What you need is set up a (or several) tier-two deployment server(s).
There is documentation available how to do that. I have done it several
times and it's not too hard. You can use a CD to copy a package from it´s
original location to the tier-two DS. Or you can set up the second DS so
that it is actually ON the CD.
As you need only the CABS (about 300 Meg) a full package will fit on one
CD. Let me know in case you have problems setting it up.
Thanks, Gerd

A little more complicated, but good idea (I think): Build the package(s) you
want to install on your remote clients, then copy the needed folders to a
hard disk, and send the HD to the remote location. Install the HD on a PC at
the remote location and share the folder where the OW package folders are,
map the clients to that share and run the setup from there.
***Make sure you modify the .ini's and inf's files to reflect the location
of the installation folders on the pc instead of the DEPLOYMENT server***

I've done this some times and it works fine.

Hope this helps you.



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I hope that gerd_renz3 doesn't mind my attempt to clarify but I wanted to make sure you understood his comment about the second DS on the CD.

You can actually create a second Deployment Server that is defined as a writeable CD Drive. There is a document out there that tells you how to do it.

Brother, I don´t mind at all your clearification. Maybe I was too short.
But now I(!) have a question: why does the Tier-Two-DS-ON-CD need to be
writeable? If I would use a new CD for each package, wouldn´t that work?
I can install a package from a read-only directory, can I not?
Thanks, Gerd

How to make a CD is described in the package management manual starting at page 6-59.

Patty

I think we are getting confused between writeable and re-writeable. It does not have to be re-writeable.