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Starting Edge Components 6.0 Product Setup Program

This topic provides procedures for starting Edge Components 6.0 Product Setup Program.

Windows(R)

Edge Components 6.0 Product Setup Program automatically starts when you insert the Edge Components CD-ROM into a computer system running the Microsoft(R) Windows operating system, unless the AUTOPLAY feature has been disabled.

Note:
For server machines, most organizations set security levels that require you to log onto the machine as a member of the Windows Administrator group in order to load software.

To manually start Edge Components 6.0 Product Setup Program:

  1. Log onto the machine as a member of the Windows Administrators group.
  2. Verify that the machine meets the hardware and software prerequisites for each component and type of functionality that you are installing. For more information, refer to Prerequisites.
  3. Insert the Edge Components CD into the computer's CD player.
  4. Click My Computer. The Windows Explorer starts, showing the top level contents of the computer.
  5. Select the drive that corresponds to the CD player. The top level contents of the Edge Components CD are displayed.
  6. Click Setup.exe. Edge Components 6.0 Product Setup Program will start.

AIX(R), Solaris, and Linux

Edge Components 6.0 Product Setup Program is a graphical program and can only be displayed within an X-windows environment. A local X-server, such as X11 on Linux or CDE on Solaris, or a remote X-server such as Hummingbird(R) Communication's Exceed can be used. All resources required to create the GUI windows are on the CD-ROM.

The following procedure uses standard UNIX(R) commands to mount the Edge Components CD-ROM and start Edge Components 6.0 Product Setup Program. Actual command syntax and mounting locations depend on the UNIX system and shell being used.

To start Edge Components 6.0 Product Setup Program:

  1. Verify that the machine meets the hardware and software prerequisites for each component and type of functionality that you are installing. For more information, refer to Prerequisites.
  2. Start the X-windows server.
  3. Start an X-windows terminal. If you are running a remote X-server, set your DISPLAY variable to the name or IP address of your remote system to display the terminal there. All of the following steps involve issuing commands from the command line within this X-windows terminal.
  4. Become the local superuser root on the machine, if you are not already, by issuing the su command.
    % su root
    Password: root_password
    
  5. Create a directory on which to mount the CD-ROM, if it does not already exist.
    RedHat Linux: 	# mkdir /mnt/cdrom
    SuSE Linux: 		# mkdir /cdrom
    AIX: 					# mkdir /cdrom
    Solaris: 			# mkdir /cdrom
    
  6. Insert the Edge Components CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive.
  7. Mount the CD-ROM and change directory to the mount point.
    Note:
    Some UNIX systems automatically mount CD-ROMs.
    RedHat Linux:	# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
    					# cd /mnt/cdrom
    SuSE Linux: 	# mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom
    					# cd /cdrom
    AIX:				# mount -v cdrfs -p -r /dev/cd0 /cdrom
    					# cd /cdrom
    Solaris:	automatically mounts the CD-ROM
    					# cd /cdrom
    
  8. Start Edge Components 6.0 Product Setup Program.
    	# ./install
    


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