This module provides an overview of installing the C++ interface to ObjectStore Release 5.1. General Description of Installation Steps provides a summary of the activities you need to complete.

Note: ObjectStore Release 5.1 does not support pre-Release 5.0 persistent relocation mapping (prm) format. If you have pre-release 5.0 databases, or if you used the earlier (standard prm) format in your release 5 databases, you must upgrade using the ObjectStore Release 5.0 utility osupgprm before you can use ObjectStore Release 5.1 with these databases.

General Description of Installation Steps

1. Familiarize yourself with information in the ObjectStore C++ Interface Release Notes. If you are upgrading ObjectStore C++ Release 5.1 from an earlier release, give special attention to the ObjectStore C++ Interface Release Notes.
   
   
2. Read this book, ObjectStore Installation and License for Solaris, completely before you perform any installation steps.
   
   
3. Ensure that you have the correct hardware and software prerequisites. See Chapter 2, Hardware and Software Prerequisites.
   
   
4. If you are planning to use ObjectStore C++ Release 5.1 rawfs databases, make sure you have raw file space that is available to be overwritten. If you are at all unsure about whether to use file databases or rawfs database, discuss the decision with your system administrator or Object Design Technical Support. You can defer the creation of an ObjectStore C++ Release 5.1 rawfs partition until later.
   
   
5. If you are running an earlier release of ObjectStore C++ , back up your databases and ObjectStore software as described in Chapter 3, Preparing to Upgrade.
   
   
6. The installation procedure explains how to load ObjectStore C++ Release 5.1 software using the osinstal utility. The instructions include unloading from CDROM media and assume a default configuration. You might want to look at the sample osinstal dialog with annotations to plan alternative prompt responses to a default installation. This file is web-browsable and can be found in /ODI/ostore/doc/inst_sol/osinst.htm.
   
   
7. Set the OS_ROOTDIR environment variable. This is described in the installation procedure.
   
   
8. Use the osconfig utility to configure ObjectStore C++ Release 5.1. Since you have several options for configuring ObjectStore, you might want to use the sample annotated osconfig dialog to help you determine your responses to the utility prompts. You can view the online sample with your browser by pointing at the file /ODI/ostore/doc/inst_sol/config.htm.
   
   
9. Install the searchable on-line documentation according to instructions in Installing the On-line Documentation and in the ObjectStore C++ Interface Release Notes.
   
   
10. Optionally, install the Java interface to ObjectStore software according to the steps in the Java 1.3 Top-level README file.
    
    
11. Optionally install the Component Server Framework software found at /cdrom/packages/compserv by typing install.
    
    

Installing the online Documentation

Updated: 04/02/98 12:43:04