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Prior to performing an installation or upgrade you should have received a PMDF distribution kit containing the distribution media and any necessary licenses. You can install PMDF including all components even if you do not currently have a license for a given component: you just will not be able to use that component until you have installed the proper license.
1.1.1 Supported Linux Versions
The Linux kit is supplied as an RPM kit, and is built on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux version 4 update 8 on an x86 32-bit processor. It
should work on any distribution of Linux that supports RPM
installations. It should work on 64-bit versions of Linux as long as
they supports 32-bit images.
The Linux core version supported is 2.6.9-89 or later.
1.1.2 Distribution Media
PMDF for Linux is distributed on a single CD-ROM that contains Linux,
Tru64 UNIX, OpenVMS, Windows, and Solaris distributions of PMDF.
Included on the CD-ROM are all the PMDF layered products. The PMDF for
Linux product family includes the following:
Prior to installation, the CD-ROM should be inserted into a CD-ROM drive accessible to the system. The exact command to use to mount a CD-ROM varies from one Linux distribution to the next. On Red Hat Enterprise Linux, mount the CD-ROM as follows:
# cd / # mount -o ro file-system directory |
file-system is the CD-ROM device, and
directory is the location in the file tree file
tree where you want to attach the PMDF distribution files. Usually the
file-system can be found at /dev/cdrom. If this is the
case, and you want to put the PMDF distribution files under
/cdrom, you would use the following commands:
# cd / # mount -o ro /dev/cdrom /cdrom |
The PMDF kit for Linux is located under the directory
/Linux-X86/PMDF660 on the CD-ROM. Thus the example above
would result in the Linux kit being present under
/cdrom/Linux-X86/PMDF660.
The PMDF on-line documentation resides on the PMDF distribution CD-ROM
under the directory /documentation.
Once mounted, use the RPM installation procedure as
presented in Section 1.4. Or, if you move the PMDF RPM kit to disk, you
can install PMDF from that on-disk copy similarly, specifying as the
location argument to RPM the path to the kit's directory.
1.1.3 Disk Space Requirements
The PMDF on Linux kit requires 76 MB of free space in the partition on
which you install PMDF (by default /opt). You can use the
df command to check total space and free space for the
filesystems in which you want to have PMDF reside.
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