Installing Windows Server 2019 from a remotely mounted ISO

[i.kononenko]

Hello Konstantin,

I have several patches [1] to solves mounting DVD-based ISOs through Virtual Media.
The published changes is WIP until had approved by the Linux Foundation community,
but in the YADRO, we use these changes to support installing the OS Windows via
Virtual Media.


I hope your will found it helpful that information to support installing Windows-based OS.

Links:
[1] - https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-usb/list/?series=507583

On 03.08.2021 16:26, Konstantin Klubnichkin wrote:
> Hello Maciej,
> I've got a question regarding the instruction.
> It's about Option 2 (preparing image on Linux).
> The sequence in the instruction is:
> 1. Create empty image using dd;
> 2. Create partition table on it with FAT32 partition;
> 3. Format image to FAT32 filesystem;
> 4. Prepare files from Windows DVD;
> 5. Mount image to some directory;
> 6. Copy files to that directory;
> 7. Unmount image.
> I can't get why to create partition table on the image(step 2) if the next step 
> (formatting image with mkfs.vfat, step 3) destroys it?
> Could you please clarify this point?
> Thank you!
> 22.10.2020, 14:39, "Maciej Lawniczak" <maciej.lawniczak at linux.intel.com>:
> 
>     Mounting DVD-based ISOs in Intel-BMC Virtual Media is not supported by
>     underlying USB Mass Storage gadget. To mount such iso files they need to be
>     converted to MBR/FAT32 image. Attached instruction shows two ways of
>     preparing such image.
> 
>     On 10/21/2020 9:32 AM, Thaj wrote:
> 
>         Hi Alexander, I am also facing the same issue. Did you find any
>         workaround for this ?
>         On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 4:04 PM Alexander Amelkin <a.amelkin at yadro.com
>         <mailto:a.amelkin at yadro.com>> wrote:
> 
>             Hi all!
> 
>             We're trying to install Windows Server 2019 from an ISO image mounted as
>             remote media via OpenBMC WebUI.
> 
>             The Windows installer boots, but then says that a media driver is
>             missing.
> 
>             Are there any hints on how to accomplish the task?
> 
>             Attached is the screenshot of the message we get with Windows Server
>             2019.
> 
>             With best regards,
>             Alexander.
> 
>             P.S. We're using Intel-BMC version of OpenBMC for the task, but it looks
>             like the remote media part is more or less the same.
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Konstantin Klubnichkin,
> lead firmware engineer,
> server hardware R&D group,
> Yandex Moscow office.
> tel: +7-903-510-33-33
> 

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Best regards,

Igor Kononenko