Cadence Installation Notes

These notes are the result of installing Cadence Tools rev9502 on dairy-queen.media.mit.edu, an HP725_90, running HP-UX v9.05.

Before you start

Become cdsmgr. All files and directories are owned by cdsmgr (here is the passwd), and the installation tools should be run by "him" as well.
cd /cadence
Run ./install/bin.hppa/softload & for an X interface, or
./install/bin.hppa/softload -ascii if using a TTY interface

Peculiarities in our Installation

Everything doesn't fit on one drive (the machine has two internal 2GB drives, with a local installation of HP-UX and swap taking 400 MB.)

The base directory is /cadence, which is a mount point for one 2GB disk.

There are two subdirectories, lib and tools.hppa/pcb, that are soft links to directories on the root partition of the other 2GB drive.

/cadence/lib is a link to /cds-lib
/cadence/tools.hppa/pcb is a link to /cds-pcb Allegro !

Loading Software from CD-ROM

Use the HP-UX sysadm utility sam to mount and unmount the CD-ROMs. You will need to do this manually, at the prompting of the installation utility (softload).

Inadequate Disk Space

The disk sizes calculated by the installer are no longer accurate, due to the soft links used for lib and pcb. You must use softload to calculate the amount of space required by what you want to install, then manually check for available disk space (on the appropriate disk) using df or bdf.

Softload will complain about inadequate disk space, but allows you to go ahead with the installation anyway.

Configuration Time

Error creating master.lib

If you get error messages while configuring the parts libraries, that look like :

Configuring package 'libBMP74TTL' .......

Lib Kit 'libBMP74TTL' checked out with license 'Base_Digital_Body_Lib'.
ttl added to master.lib

Creating new master.lib

/cadence/install/pkgs/libBMP74TTL11.60-p002.exe: master.lib: cannot create

It seems you can safely ignore them.

Don't reconfigure the license server

Beware the evil running license manager. If not installing a new license, be sure not to (re)configure the license manager (or even re-read the license.)

If you ARE installing a new license try:

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