11. Installing DB2 Version 8.2 on SuSE Linux Personal 9.1
Before proceeding, please ensure that you have read
Section 3 and Section 4.
Note that IBM does not officially support this distribution for
DB2 UDB V8.2. Any problems you encounter using this distribution must be
replicated on a supported distribution before IBM Support will help you
resolve the issue.
These notes are based on the 2.6.4-52-default kernel and
installing to a single-partition
environment.
11.1. Pre-installation notes
The pdksh package is not installed by default. If you want to
install a multiple-partition environment on SuSE Linux Personal, you
will have to install pdksh.
The installer may complain about being unable to use the SMTP
server even though postfix is installed and sendmail is available in the
path. Make sure that postfix has been started before
installation.
11.2. Installation notes
The usual trick of adding an xhost entry for localhost and then
exporting the DISPLAY=localhost:0 when installing (so that the graphical
utilities are displayed on a non-root user's desktop) didn't seem to
work here. Instead, execute the following command to log in as root
and forward the X server: