PMDF Installation Guide
Tru64 UNIX Edition
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1.1 What You Should Have

Before you perform an installation or an upgrade, you should have received a PMDF distribution kit. This kit contains the distribution media and all necessary license PAKs. You can install any PMDF layered product even if you do not currently have a PAK for it: you just will not 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 is distributed on a single CD-ROM that contains Tru64 UNIX, OpenVMS, Windows, and Solaris distributions of PMDF. Also included on the CD-ROM are all the PMDF layered products, including PMDF-TLS which is no longer in a separate kit. Specifically, the distribution for the PMDF Tru64 UNIX product family includes the following:

The CD-ROM is an ISO 9660 with Rockridge extensions CD-ROM, which is readable from many different platforms.

Prior to the installation, insert the CD-ROM into a CD-ROM drive that is accessible to the system. It should be mounted according to the following: 


# 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 where you want to attach the PMDF distribution files. For example, if your CD-ROM device is located on the rz4c disk and you want to put the PMDF distribution files under /mnt, you would use the following commands: 


# cd /
# mount -t cdfs -o noversion,rrip /dev/rz4c /mnt

PMDF subsets for the Tru64 UNIX installation are located under the /OSF1-Alpha/PMDF640 directory on the CD-ROM. Therefore, in the above example, the subsets are located under /mnt/OSF1-Alpha/PMDF640.

The PMDF online documentation is located in the /documentation directory on the CD-ROM. These files can also be installed to disk during the PMDF installation.

Once the PMDF distribution files have been mounted, follow the setld installation instructions that are documented in Section 1.4. Or, if you move the PMDF product subsets to disk, install PMDF from that on-disk copy, specifying the path to the subsets' directory as the location argument to setld.

1.1.2 Disk Space Requirements

Disk space requirements for PMDF are shown in Table 1-1.

Table 1-1 Disk Space Requirements for PMDF
Subset Name Kbytes Required
PMDFBASE 58500
PMDFDOC 38000
PMDFDIRSYNC 4500
PMDFLAN 3400
PMDFMB400 700
PMDFTLS 2300

Note
The PMDFBASE subset includes PMDF-MTA. So, if you want to install PMDF-MTA, choose it.
These disk space requirements apply to the partition where you are going to load the PMDF subsets. You can use the df command to check total space and free space for the directories where you want PMDF to be located.

1.1.3 Supported Tru64 UNIX Versions

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

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