Verifying and extracting electronic images

If you download the installation files from IBM® Passport Advantage®, you must extract the electronic image from the compressed files before you can install the software.

About this task

If you select the Download Director option for downloading the installation files, the Download Director applet automatically verifies the completeness of each file that it processes.

Extracting the files

About this task

When extracting the installation files from the downloaded compressed files, do the following things:
  • Ensure that you preserve the directory structure of compressed files when you extract them.
  • Extract the contents of all of the compressed files to the same directory. For Linux, do not include spaces in the directory names, or you won't be able to run the command to start the launchpad from a command line.
Important: The directory path where you extract the compressed product files must not exceed 90 characters in length. To avoid possible installation errors, extract the files to a shorter directory path, for example, C:\temp.
When you are finished extracting all of the compressed files, the directory where you extracted the contents will have subdirectories with the following names:
Table 1. Subdirectories created after extracting compressed file contents
Subdirectory name Required or optional
disk1 required
disk2 required
documentation required
enterpriseDeployment required
launchpad required
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