PMDF Installation Guide
Tru64 UNIX Edition
PMDF-INST-DUX-60


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1.1 What you should have

Prior to performing an installation or upgrade you should have received a PMDF distribution kit containing the distribution media and any necessary license Product Authorization Keys (PAKs). You can install any PMDF layered product even if you do not currently have a PAK for it: you just won't be able to use that layered product until you have registered and loaded the proper PAK.

1.1.1 Distribution media

PMDF for Tru64 UNIX (Digital UNIX) is distributed on a single CD-ROM that contains Tru64 UNIX, OpenVMS, NT, and Solaris distributions of PMDF and all PMDF layered products, other than PMDF-TLS. In particular, the distribution includes the complete PMDF for Tru64 UNIX product family (except PMDF-TLS): PMDF-MTA, PMDF-ACCESS, PMDF-DIRSYNC, PMDF-LAN, PMDF-MB400, PMDF-MSGSTORE, PMDF-POPSTORE, PMDF-X400, and PMDF-XGS. The CD-ROM is an ISO 9660 with Rockridge extensions CD-ROM, readable from many different platforms.

Prior to installation, the CD-ROM should be inserted into a CD-ROM drive accessible to the system and mounted as follows:

# cd /
# mount -t cdfs -o noversion,rrip file-system directory
where file-system is the drive of the CD-ROM device, and directory is the location in the file tree at which to attach the newly mounted file-system. For example, if your CD-ROM device is located on the rz4c disk and you wish to place the PMDF distribution files under /mnt , you would issue the commands:
# cd /
# mount -t cdfs -o noversion,rrip /dev/rz4c /mnt

Note that the PMDF for Tru64 UNIX subsets reside under the directory /OSF1-Alpha/PMDF600. Thus the example above would result in the subsets being present under /mnt/OSF1-Alpha/PMDF600.

The PMDF on-line documentation resides on the PMDF distribution CD-ROM under the directory /documentation, or optionally may be installed to disk during the PMDF installation.

Once mounted, use the setld installation procedure as presented in Section 1.4 . Or, if you move the PMDF product subsets to disk, you can install PMDF from that on-disk copy similarly, specifying as the location argument to setld the path to the subsets' directory.

1.1.2 Disk space required

The disk space requirements for PMDF are listed in Table 1-1 .

Table 1-1 Disk space requirements for PMDF
Subset Name Kbytes Required
PMDFBASE 51000
PMDFDOC 27000
PMDFDIRSYNC 4400
PMDFLAN 4300
PMDFMB400 1000
PMDFX400 4700
PMDFXGS 500
Note that the PMDFBASE subset includes both PMDF-MTA and PMDF-ACCESS; this is the subset you should install regardless of which one of the two you will actually be using.

These disk space requirements apply to the partition on which you load the PMDF subsets. You can use the df command to check total space and free space for the directories in which you wish to have PMDF reside.

1.1.3 Supported Tru64 UNIX versions

Tru64 UNIX V4.0D is the minimum Tru64 UNIX version on which PMDF V6.0 is supported.


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