Sun Microsystems X6250 manual Iv. Select FloppyPack.zip

■System with a floppy drive

■Floppy disk

■The latest Tools and Drivers CD for you server, or FloppyPack.zip (See “Downloading Server-Specific Driver Packages” on page 7 for details on obtaining FloppyPack.zip)

▼To Create a Floppy Disk for the Sun Blade X6250 Server Module

Sun provides a wizard to help create the necessary floppy disk required for Windows Server 2003 installation. The Sun Mass-Storage Driver Disk Creation wizard may be started using one of the following methods: from the main menu of your server’s Tools and Drivers CD, or from the mkfloppy.exe wizard. Directions for using either method are described below.

1.Start the Sun Mass-Storage Driver Disk Creation wizard using one of the following methods:

■Insert the Tools and Drivers CD into a Windows system with a CD/DVD drive. The CD will autostart. At the main menu, select Make a Mass-Storage Driver Disk, and then proceed to Step 2.

--or--

■If you have downloaded FloppyPack.zip from the Sun download site (see “Downloading Server-Specific Driver Packages” on page 7), do the following to copy and extract the files:

i.On a system running Microsoft Windows software with a floppy drive, copy the FloppyPack.zip file to a temporary directory.

ii.Start Windows Explorer.

iii.Navigate to the folder where you placed the downloaded file.

iv.Select FloppyPack.zip.

v.On the File menu, click Extract All.

Note – If your version of Windows Explorer does not natively support compressed folders, use a third-party utility to extract the contents of the zip file. Make sure to maintain the directory structure of the folders after extracting them.

vi. Extract the files into a new (empty) folder.

14 Sun Blade X6250 Server Module Windows Operating System Installation Guide • September 2008