Running the installation programs

The Installation e-image for the z Systems Development and Test Environment product is an ISO image that includes two installation programs that you can use to install the product. The program install.sh is used to install the product from within a graphical user interface. The program install-console.sh is used to install the product in text mode from a Linux console. While the installation programs install the zPDT® system, they do not install a z/OS® distribution. A z/OS distribution must either be migrated from a current z/OS system or an existing z/OS system that is running on z Systems Development and Test Environment, or be downloaded from Passport Advantage® and installed separately.

To run the installation programs, you must first mount the installation ISO image. Mounting .iso images is a manual process that uses the mount -o loop command. For example,

mount -o loop /path to iso/ZDT10-install-xxxxxxx-yyyyyyy.iso /path to mount on

Note: Alternatively, you can burn a physical DVD from the .iso image, and insert the DVD into the host machine that is running Linux. Most Linux installations automatically mount a DVD when it is inserted. The term installation disk represents either a mounted ISO image or a mounted physical DVD.

The installation programs must be run from the root user ID.