Quick Beginnings Personal Edition

Performing the Installation

To install your DB2 product, perform the following steps:

step  1.
Log on to the system with the user account that you created to perform the installation.
step  2.
Shut down any other programs so that the setup program can update files as required.
step  3.
Insert the CD-ROM into the drive. The auto-run feature automatically starts the setup program. The setup program will determine the system language, and launch the setup program for that language. If you want to run the setup program in a different language, or the setup program failed to auto-start, see the tip that follows.

To manually invoke the setup program, perform the following steps:

Click on Start and select the Run option.
In the Open field, enter the following command:
x:\setup /i language

where:

x: represents your CD-ROM drive
language represents the country code for your language (for example, EN for English). Table 5 lists the code for each available language.

Click on OK.

step  4.
The Welcome window opens.

step  5.
Respond to the setup program's prompts. Online help is available to guide you through the remaining steps. Invoke the online help by clicking on the Help push button or pressing the F1 key at any time. You can click on the Cancel push button at any time to end the installation.

For information on errors encountered during installation, see the db2.log file. The db2.log file stores general information and error messages resulting from the install and uninstall activities. By default, the db2.log file is located in the x:\db2log directory, where x: represents the drive on which your operating system is installed.
For more information, refer to the Troubleshooting Guide.

Based on your component selections, the installation program has:

Created DB2 program groups and items (or shortcuts).
Created the following services on Windows NT: DB2 Governor, DB2 JDBC Applet Server, DB2 Security Server.
Updated the Windows registry (Windows NT only).
Created a default instance named DB2.
On Windows NT, it was added as a service; if you selected to Automatically start the DB2 instance at boot time, the service's startup type was set to Automatic, otherwise, it was set to Manual.
On Windows 9x, if you selected to Automatically start the DB2 instance at boot time, the db2start command was added to the Startup folder.
Created the DB2 Administration Server.

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