Module ‘Installation’

Exercise

To make things not to complicate you are not supposed to install the Informix DBMS by
yourself. Instead you are going to use a pre-configured installation that runs inside a
virtual Ubuntu machine.

1. You should have received two files from your instructor, which are now on your hard
disk:
a. VMware-PlayerXXX.exe and
b. Ubuntu.zip
Execute the exe-file, which installs the VMware-Player for. If you are prompted by the
installation procedure, use the defaults. Say no, if an upgrade is suggested.

2. Uncompress the archive Ubuntu.zip.

3. You should now have a program called VMware-Player on your computer, if you
followed the instructions in exercise 1. Start this program. A window should open, which
is similar to the following screenshot. Choose ‘Open a Virtual Machine’.
4. An open dialog as in the following screenshot should appear. Navigate to the
directory, which contains the uncompressed files from Ubuntu.zip, choose
Ubuntu.vmx, and press the ‘Open’ button.

5. The main screen of your VMware-Player software should look like the following
screenshot. Press ‘Play virtual machine’.
6. The boot process of your virtual Ubuntu Linux machine should start now. It may take a
while until you see the login screen as in the following screenshot. Log in as user
‘informix’ with password ‘vgu’.

7. After you successfully logged in you should see the window manager of Ubuntu as in
the following screenshot.
On the sidebar you find the most important programs that you are going to use in our
lab:

Nautilus: a file system explorer

System Settings. Use it to configure you locales and keyboard
layout
Terminal gives you a Unix shell

Chromium: a web browser

8. Open Terminal to get a Unix shell like in the following screenshot.

Start your IBM Informix database server using the Informix command
oninit

9. After the oninit-command is executed, type in the Informix command

onstat -
to monitor the status of you DBMS. If your installation is correct you should receive a
response similar to

IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.50.TC1 -- On-Line -- Up 00:09:21 --

78208 Kbytes