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CHAPTER 2

Installing SunForum




This chapter contains the following topics:

Installation Requirements
SunForum CD Directories
Installing the Software
You must be able to become superuser to install SunForum. If you do not know the root password of the system on which you are installing SunForum, contact your system administrator.


Installation Requirements

To install SunForum, you must have the following hardware and software configuration:

Solaris 2.5.1 HW: 4/97 and Solaris 2.6 operating environment or a compatible version
10 Mbytes of available disk space
Sun UltraTM 1 or better workstation
A TCP/IP connection

Note - If there is a network security mechanism between the two machines, T.120 data uses port 1503 and the Internet Locator Server (ILS) uses port 389. Contact your system administrator.


SunForum CD Directories



TABLE  2-1   SunForum CD Directories
Directory Name
Description

Copyright

U.S. version of copyright

FR_Copyright

French version of copyright

Docs

HTML and PostScriptTM files of the user's guide

Product

The three SunForum product packages (SUNWdat, SUNWdatr, and SUNWdatu)



TABLE  2-2   SunForum Software Package Directory Location
SunForum Package
Directory Location

SUNWdat

/opt

SUNWdatr

/etc

SUNWdatu

/usr/openwin


Installing the Software


 

To Remove Previous Software Releases

You must remove any previous releases of SunForum before installing new software packages.

  1. Exit your window environment to the command line.
  2. Log into your workstation as superuser.
  3. Remove the previous SunForum software releases by typing:

 
# pkgrm SUNWdatr SUNWdat SUNWdatu

If the pre-release xdcs version of this product is installed, type:

 
# pkgrm xdcs


 

To Install SunForum

  1. Become superuser.
  2. Insert the SunForum 1.0 CD into the CD-ROM drive connected to your system.
If your system is running Volume Manager, it should automatically mount the CD-ROM to the /cdrom/sunforum directory.
If your system is not running Volume Manager, mount the CD-ROM as follows:

 
# mkdir -p /cdrom/sunforum_1_0
 
# mount -F hsfs -r /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s2 /cdrom/sunforum_1_0

  3. Use pkgadd to add the SunForum packages.
 

  4. Type all to select all packages.
  The pkgadd program starts the installation script, displays the copyright information, loads all the files into their appropriate locations, displays a message informing you that the installation was successful, then displays the list of available packages again.
  During installation, pkgadd may issue a warning prompt and ask whether you want to continue with the installation; type y for yes.
  5. When prompted, type the path to your browser.
  The browser is required for online help.
  If you do not know the path to your browser, go to a different terminal window and type the following at your user prompt to display your browser path:

 
% which netscape 
 
or
 
% which hotjava

  More prompts are displayed asking if you want to continue installation until each SunForum package is installed. Type y to these prompts.
  6. When prompted again to select packages, type q to quit pkgadd.
  7. Exit your window environment.
  8. Log into your window environment and go to your user prompt.
  9. Set the directory path for SunForum.
To add the SunForum directory to your .cshrc file, type the following at your user prompt to set the path:

 
% set path = ($path:/opt/SUNWdat/bin)

To add the SunForum directory to your path (not from your .cshrc file), type:

 
% path=$path:/opt/SUNWdat/bin
 
% export path


Note - If in a Bourne or Korn shell, use PATH (all upper case) above.
  10. Type sunforum to verify the installation.
To start SunForum if you did not set your path to include the SunForum directory in Step 9, type:

 
% /opt/SUNWdat/bin/sunforum

To start SunForum if you added SunForum to your path, type:

 
% sunforum


Note - If you installed SunForum in a directory that is not the default
(/opt/SUNWdat), you must alter the directory paths in these steps to reflect the correct directory.



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