Part of planning entails making decisions about installation
locations, working with other applications, and other considerations.
Installation Locations IBM® Installation Manager retrieves
product packages from specified repositories and installs the products
into selected locations, which are referred to as package groups.
Setting repository preferences in Installation Manager IBM Installation Manager retrieves
product packages from specified repository locations. If the launchpad
is used to start Installation
Manager,
the repository information is passed to Installation
Manager.
If the Installation
Manager is
started directly, you must specify an installation repository that
contains the product packages that you want to install.