MDS INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION

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Lab 1: Installing and Configuring the Primary MDS Station
VERIFY MDS MACHINE CONFIGURATION
1 Verify that gzip and gunzip are installed on the Sun Solaris or Linux machine
before attempting to install the MDS.
2 Verify that your machine meets the minimum requirement for MDS installation,
including patch level.
A specific kernel must be running on the Linux machine before
you can install the Provider-1 MDS. If the system does not boot
up on this kernel, the MDS installation will fail.
3 Insert the Provider-1 NG CD into the CD-ROM drive.
TRANSFER PROVIDER-1 NG FILES TO SOLARIS MACHINE
Begin from a Terminal or Console window on the machine that will function as
your configuration’s Primary MDS.
1 Enter the root password for your machine.
2 Create a temporary directory for the MDS, for example:
/Provider_NG
The temporary directory from which the installation is
performed is not automatically erased upon installation of the
Provider-1 NG MDS. It can be used later for a reinstallation.
3 Using the cd command, navigate to the MDS file on the Provider-1 CD.
4 Select the package appropriate for the system on which you
wish to install.
5 Copy the tgzipped file to /Provider_NG.
6 Change directory to /Provider_NG.
7 Decompress the *.tgz file and untar it.
Solaris example:
gzip -d Provider-1_R55_MDS_pr22_solaris.tgz
tar -xvf Provider-1_R55_MDS_pr22_solaris.tar
Linux example:
gzip -d mds_release_ng_r54_linux_pr4.tgz
tar -xvf mds_release_ng_r54_linux_pr4.tar