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AS/400 IBM Network Station: Techniques for Deployment in a WAN
3.3.9 Loading the Image onto the Flash Card
If you completed the steps in Section 3.3.8, “Formatting the Flash Card” on
page 82 to build a Flash card from start to finish, the Local File Manager
display should be active on your Flash Card enabled IBM Network Station. If
the local file manager is not active, follow the previous instructions on how to
start it.
There are several tools that you can use to load the image onto the Flash
card. You can use NFS/400, NFS from a PC or the IBM Network Station local
file manager. There is no FTP daemon on the IBM Network Station.
Therefore, FTP cannot be used. NFS/400 has the least number of steps to
complete the image transfer the Flash card.
3.3.9.1 Coping Data to the Flash Card Using NFS/400
You can use NFS/400 to copy the files from the IFS on the AS/400 to the
Flash card installed in your Network Station. The Network Station has an NFS
server daemon and because the AS/400 system is the NFS client, it is
not
necessary to start the NFS servers on the AS/400 system.
Use the following steps to use NFS to copy the required files to the Flash
card:
1. Create a directory in the AS/400 IFS to mount the Flash card over by
entering
mkdir ’/nwslocal’ on any AS/400 command line. Press
Enter
.
2. Mount the Flash card file system over the
/nwslocal directory by entering
the following command on any AS/400 command line:
MOUNT TYPE(*NFS) MFS('nwsIPaddr:/local/')
MNTOVRDIR('/nwslocal')
The nwsIPaddr is the TCP/IP address of the IBM Network Station
containing the Flash Card.
If the command to mount the Flash card on the AS/400 fails with the
message:
System unable to establish a communication connection to a file
server
, please ensure that the line set file-enable-nfs-server = true exists in
the
flash.nsm file and that the Network Station has been rebooted. Refer to
Section 3.3.8, “Formatting the Flash Card” on page 82 and refer to step 1 on
page 82
Open the file flash.nsm..... .
Note