Compaq T1500 manual Installing on Non-Supported Servers

Installing CD Software onto the Server(s) 45

There are five sections to the GUI-mode installation. Each has a distinct background screen. The first section is purely informative to you, the user. The second section contains a series of checklists, asking for which items you wish to install on that server. The third section asks for locations based upon the items selected in the second section. The fourth section confirms whether you wish to proceed and update your disk or abort your installation. The fifth section actually installs the software in the requested locations.

You will be presented with a series of dialogs. Most of the dialogs contain two buttons, OK and Cancel. OK will proceed to the next dialog. Except where noted, the Cancel buttons allow you to abort the current action.

Caution

Be careful not to overwrite installations for terminals using prior software releases. Do not select Upgrade on top of a previous installation when prompted.

Refer back to “Text Mode Installation” for additional information.

Installing on Non-Supported Servers

Although the installation software supports installation only on Windows NT server, SCO UnixWare, SCO OpenServer, Slackware, Red Hat Linux, and HP/UX servers, some end-users may want to use other servers. Patches to the CD software will be made available as new server platforms become supported. In the event that patches are not available at the time you require them, you can do one of two things: Either install the tar files (and other files) manually on your server or modify the installation script for use in your environment. Although the current software does not support either of these, the tools are provided so that you can do it if needed.

The entire installation procedure is written using TCL 8.0.3 and TK 8.0.3. TCL/TK is a scripting language similar to the shell and/or Perl, and is available for a large number of platforms (generic UNIX, Windows, Macintosh, and other systems). Tcl contains a non-graphical interface, TK adds a graphical interface.

The contents of the CD are separated into several directories. The product directory contains the terminal software. The scripts directory contains the TCL and TK scripts. The sources directory contains two tar files of sources, one for TK, one for TCL. The library directory contains runtime files that are common to all supported platforms but are not part of the actual installation scripts. The images directory contains the various background images for the installation screens (when run with a GUI). The product.src directory contains the source for the terminal components that are protected by the GPL (GNU Public License).