Extract installer file…

 

Run Prechecks…

I already solved the first one… See below on how to disable SELinux on your RHEL system.

 

Below that, I’ll show you how to solve the missing packages so we can continue with DB2 installation

 

 

 

 

 

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Fully Disabling SELinux

Fully disabling SELinux goes one step further than just switching into permissive mode. Disabling will completely disable all SELinux functions including file and process labeling.

In Fedora Core and RedHat Enterprise, edit /etc/selinux/config and change the SELINUX line to SELINUX=disabled:

# This file controls the state of SELinux on the system.
# SELINUX= can take one of these three values:
# enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced.
# permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing.
# disabled - No SELinux policy is loaded.
SELINUX=disabled
# SELINUXTYPE= can take one of these two values:
# targeted - Only targeted network daemons are protected.
# strict - Full SELinux protection.
SELINUXTYPE=targeted

… and then reboot the system.

(thanks… http://www.crypt.gen.nz/selinux/disable_selinux.html)

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Installing dapl…

On my ISO are the various RPM packages I’ll need.  Attempting to install dapl resulted in additional dependencies…

…installing libibverbs…

…installing librdmacm…

and finally… it works

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Installing sg3_utils…

This seems to be a recurring theme any time I play with *nix boxes.. dependencies upon dependencies…

…installing libsgutils2 which refers to sg3_utils-libs…

and finally… it works

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I was unable to find an sg_persist package… so I re-ran the db2prereqcheck script… and looks like it is included in one of the packages that were installed… and v10.1.0.0 is ready for installation!

Back to the installation:

After answering some basic questions like where to install, etc…  it finished!

 

To validate it is running… try this:

ps –eaf | grep –i db2sysc

 

To automatically start DB2 instance…

/opt/ibm/db2/V10.1/bin/db2iauto –on db2inst1