PMDF Installation Guide
Linux Edition
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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 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 6.10 update 8 on an x86_64 64-bit processor. It should work on any distribution of 64-bit Linux that supports RPM installations. It will not install or work on 32-bit systems.

The Linux core version supported is 2.6.32-696 or later.

1.1.2 Distribution Media

PMDF for Linux is distributed on a single CD-ROM. 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
where 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/PMDF680 on the CD-ROM. Thus the example above would result in the Linux kit being present under /cdrom/Linux-X86/PMDF680 .

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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