Launch the installer from a DVD

Mount a DVD and the run the installer.

Mount a DVD‌

If you are installing from a DVD, or copying its contents to a local disk, first mount the DVD.

  1. Log in as user root.

  2. Mount the DVD using a drive located on your system or through NFS. The DVDs are in ISO 9660 format (with Rock Ridge information)

    • IBM AIX

      Mount the DVD at the mount point, for example:

      # mount -rv cdrfs /dev/cd0 /cdrom

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server

      If your system uses autofs and is configured correctly, it automatically mounts your DVD drive.

      If your system uses autofs but it is not configured, search the /etc/fstab file for a line similar to:

      /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0

      Then mount the DVD using the following command:

      $ mount /dev/cdrom

      If your system does not use autofs, enter the following command:

      $ mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom

    • Sun Sparc

      If your system uses Volume Management to automount DVDs (vold(1M) daemon are running), then the DVD automounts. Otherwise, mount the DVD at the mount point, for example:

      # mount -r -F hsfs /dev/sr0 /cdrom

Launch the HTML front end‌

  1. Run index.html on the mounted DVD or in the directory containing the copied contents of the DVD.

  2. In the If you are ready to install section, click Click here >> to access the Ready to install page.

  3. Copy the appropriate executable path name under Dimensions for UNIX. In a terminal window, paste the path name to run the executable, for example: 

    dimensions_cm/dimensions_AIX64/Dimensions_<application>_AIX64.bin