Daylight Worksheet - Installing the Daylight distribution

The Daylight distribution is supplied as a tar-gzip archive. Thus to unpack and install the archive, "gzip -d" and tar must be used.

FROM CDROM:

1. Insert the Daylight software CDROM (4.5x-4.6x). The operating system should automatically mount the CDROM.
2. Find the CDROM directory. Normally on SGIs it is /CDROM, on Suns it is a directory under /cdrom. Identify the desired archive, either the "heavy" or "light" package.
3. Find or create an installation directory and cd to it. Unpack and install the distribution as follows (modify path as appropriate):

   mkdir /daylight
   mkdir /daylight/day462
   chown -R thor /daylight
   chgrp -R thor /daylight
   su - thor
   cd /daylight/day462
   gzip -dc /CDROM/day462-sgi.tar.gz | tar xvf - 
   

1. ftp the archive from ftp.daylight.com or a mirror site.
2. Unpack archive as from CDROM.

NFS-mounting the Daylight distribution

If the software is already installed on a fileserver you may wish to use the NFS-mounted disk:

mkdir /daylight
chown thor /daylight
ln -s /net/origin200/nalgas/daylight/day462.sun /daylight/day462

testlicense - requesting a Daylight license

Daylight licenses are node-locked, so to request a license some cpu information must be provided to Daylight. The simplest way to obtain this information is using testlicense:

% cd $DY_ROOT/bin
% ./testlicense -i
cpu type: sun4m
cpu idno: 7279db90

Daylight Worksheet - Installing a Daylight database

Daylight databases are supplied as tar-gzip archives. Thus to unpack and install an archive, "gzip -d" and tar must be used.

1. Insert the database CDROM. The operating system should automatically mount the CDROM.
2. Find the CDROM directory. Normally on SGIs it is /CDROM, on Suns it is a directory under /cdrom. Identify the desired archive.
3. cd to the desired installation directory. Unpack and install the database as follows (modify path as appropriate):

   cd $DY_THORDB
   gzip -dc /CDROM/lotadata99.tar.gz | tar xvf -