Install Windows Server 2003 Remotely Using IPMI
1. Preparation
1.1 RAID Card Driver Preparation
(1) Download and extract the RAID card driver package
Cropped English explanatory illustration highlighting the original LSI8708E_W03_ia32 driver folder.
(2) Use UltraISO to create a floppy disk image containing the RAID drivers. The examples show different controller packages; use the driver for your controller, OS version and architecture.
Note: Prepare the UltraISO tool yourself.
Cropped English explanatory illustration: File > New > Floppy Image.
(3) Set the image size to 1.44MB, select No System, and click OK as shown.
Cropped English explanatory illustration of the Image Format dialog: 1.44MB, No System, then OK.
(4) In the lower-left Local Directory pane, select the driver folder.
Press Ctrl+A to select the driver files in the lower pane, then drag them into the upper image pane.
Cropped English explanatory illustration of the source Adaptec Windows-driver folder example; choose the package for the installed controller and OS.
Cropped English explanatory illustration of selecting all visible driver entries before dragging them into the image pane.
Cropped English explanatory illustration of the source capacity indicator after the drivers were copied; displayed numbers are retained.
(5) Select the "Save" option
English explanatory illustration of the UltraISO Save menu.
Cropped English explanatory illustration: save the floppy image as raid.img.
English explanatory illustration of the generated raid.img file; source filenames, dates and sizes are retained.
At this point, RAID card driver preparation is complete.
1.2 Virtual Drive and Floppy Drive Preparation
(1) Use a browser to open the IPMI Web login interface and log in
Cropped English explanatory illustration of the BMC login fields; no credentials are shown.
(2) Open Remote Control > Console Redirection, then click Java Console to launch the remote console.
Cropped English explanatory illustration: Remote Control > Console Redirection.
Cropped English explanatory illustration of launching the Java Console.
English explanatory illustration of the original JNLP download dialog.
English explanatory illustration of the legacy Java warning. The application remains identified as having an unknown publisher.
(3) Prepare to load the virtual floppy drive file
Click "Browse"
English explanatory illustration of the virtual-floppy file picker before a file is selected.
English explanatory illustration: select raid.img for the virtual floppy drive.
After selecting the RAID-driver image, click Connect Floppy to connect the virtual floppy drive.
(4) Load the optical drive image file (operating system image), click "Browse"
Select the location where the system image is stored
English explanatory illustration: select the Windows Server 2003 installation ISO while the driver floppy remains connected.
Click Connect CD/DVD to connect the virtual optical drive.
Final Status
2. System Installation Process
2.1 Set Virtual Drive Boot
Set Boot Option #1 to AMI Virtual CDROM0 1.00 as shown in the source BIOS screen, then boot from the installation image.
2.2 Start the System Installation Process
During Windows Setup, press F6 when prompted to install a third-party SCSI or RAID driver from the connected driver image.
Installation process reference article: Manual installation of Windows 2003.