Pre-installation checklist

You can use this checklist for your installation that outlines some of the required steps.

Procedure

  1. If you are installing from an electronic image that you downloaded from IBM® Passport Advantage®, verify that you have the required parts and that you have extracted the download files correctly into a single directory.
  2. (For Linux) If you are installing from a physical media, mount your CD drive.
  3. (For Linux) If you want accounts other than root to use the product installation, then set the umask variable to 0022 before you install the product. To set this variable, log in as root user, start a terminal session, and type umask 0022.
  4. (For Linux) Increase the number of file handles on your computer. For details, see Increasing the number of file handles on Linux computers.
  5. Make sure that you are logged on to your computer with an appropriate user ID.

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