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3.3 Installation of The Developer Connection Catalog

 

   The Developer Connection for OS/2 Volume 9 and Special Edition CD-ROMs 
   contain a collection of IBM and third-party and generally available 
   pre-release products, sample programs, software demos and manuals to help 
   you develop an OS/2 application. 


   You need to install The Developer Connection Catalog to have access to 
   these products. 


   To install The Developer Connection Catalog, follow the installation 
   procedure of The Developer Connection for OS/2 Volume 9 Special Edition. 
   The installation program allows you to set up The Developer Connection to 
   run either from your local hard disk or from the CD-ROM.  If you have 
   enough free space on your hard disk, we recommend you to install it on 
   your hard disk for better performance of The Developer Connection Catalog. 
   If you have to save hard disk space, The Developer Connection for OS/2 
   Volume 9 Special Edition installation procedure allows you to copy the 
   minimum amount of files necessary onto your hard disk. 


    ___ Note _______________________________________________________________  
   |                                                                        | 
   |                                                                        | 
   | If you have installed The Developer Connection Catalog from the        | 
   | original The Developer Connection for OS/2 Volume 9 CD-ROMs on your    | 
   | hard disk, you must reinstall it using disc 3 or disc 4 of The         | 
   | Developer Connection for OS/2 Volume 9 Special Edition because the     | 
   | catalog has been updated in this newer version.                        | 
   |                                                                        | 
   | If you had set up The Developer Connection Catalog to run from CD-ROM  | 
   | you do not need to reinstall it, since the newer catalog will be read  | 
   | from the CD-ROM. In this case, insert disc 3 or disc 4 from The        | 
   | Developer Connection for OS/2 Volume 9 Special Edition to browse the   | 
   | catalog to have access to the newer version.  When doing this, you     | 
   | will not see the Special Edition flags on the catalog (as shown in     | 
   | Figure 73 in topic 3.4), but you will still have access to all the     | 
   | products in the catalog.                                               | 
   |                                                                        | 
   |________________________________________________________________________| 


   To install The Developer Connection Catalog you need to do the following 
   steps: 


   1.  Insert disc 3 or disc 4 of The Developer Connection for OS/2 Volume 9 
       Special Edition into a CD-ROM drive. 


   2.  At an OS/2 command prompt, change to the CD-ROM drive. 


   3.  Type DEVCON and select Enter.  The Welcome screen appears as seen in 
       Figure 61. 




 




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   Figure 61. The Developer Connection Welcome Screen 


   4.  Select Continue to proceed to the next screen.  Figure 62 will appear. 




 




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   Figure 62. The Developer Connection Install Screen (Update CONFIG.SYS) 


   5.  Select OK in the Install panel.  You will notice the Update CONFIG.SYS 
       check button is grayed out since no modifications will be made to that 
       file with this installation. 


   6.  Select the The Developer Connection components that you want to 
       install on the system on the screen shown in Figure 63: 


       You have the following options: 


       °   CATALOG (Run from CD-ROM) 


       °   BROWSER (Run from CD-ROM) 


       °   CATALOG (Run from the hard disk) 


       °   BROWSER (Run from the hard disk) 




       The option to run The Developer Connection Catalog from the CD-ROM 
       will take less space on your machine (100 KB) but the access will be 
       slower, since only some initialization files will be copied to the 
       hard drive. 


       The option to run The Developer Connection Catalog from the hard disk 
       will take more space on your machine (2 MB) but will improve the 
       performance of the catalog. 


       In the example described below, we will use the option to run from the 
       hard disk. 




 




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   Figure 63. The Developer Connection Install - Hard Disk Installation 


       The default options that appear as selected on Figure 63 are the ones 
       to run The Developer Connection Catalog and The Developer Connection 
       Bowser from CD-ROM.  To change them to install the catalog on the hard 
       disk, you first have to unselect the two CD-ROM-related lines by 
       clicking on them with mouse button one or by selecting the Deselect 
       all button on the right side of the screen. 


       Select the line CATALOG (Run from hard disk) with mouse button one. 


       The Descriptions push button located at the right-hand side of the 
       screen will show a small window with information about the lines 
       selected. 


       You can also specify the directory where you want to install the 
       components in this panel overtyping the contents of the Base directory 
       field.  The default is C:\DEVCON as shown in Figure 63.  This 
       directory will be created if it does not exist. 


       If you have already installed The Developer Connection you will get a 
       different panel with the following choices (as shown in Figure 64): 


       °   Update the currently installed components. 


       °   Delete the installed components and re-install. 


       °   Install additional components. 






 




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   Figure 64. The Developer Connection Installation Options 


       If you get the screen shown on Figure 64, select Continue to update 
       your current installation and skip the following step. 


   7.  Select the Install button on the screen shown in Figure 63 to begin 
       the installation process.  A window indicating the progress of the 
       installation will appear (Figure 65). 




 




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   Figure 65. The Developer Connection Install - Progress 


   8.  After all files are copied (this will take a couple of minutes), 
       select OK in the successfully installed message panel (Figure 66). 




 




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   Figure 66. The Developer Connection Successful Installation 


   9.  Select Exit to exit from the installation program on the screen shown 
       in Figure 67. 




 




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   Figure 67. The Developer Connection Installation Finished 




   The process to install The Developer Connection Catalog to run from the 
   CD-ROM is the same as the one described for the hard disk installation. 
   You will only need to select the line CATALOG (Run from CD-ROM) in step 6 
   as shown in Figure 68. 




 




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   Figure 68. The Developer Connection Install - CD-ROM Installation 


   In both cases, the CD-ROM and the hard disk installation, the result is a 
   new folder called The Developer Connection on your Desktop. 


   As no modifications of the CONFIG.SYS file were made during the 
   installation, you can start using The Developer Connection components 
   right away. 


   After opening the folder by double-clicking on The Developer Connection 
   icon, you will see the contents of The Developer Connection folder as 
   shown in Figure 69. 




 




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   Figure 69. The Developer Connection Folder 


   This folder contains the following icons that make up The Developer 
   Connection: 


   °   The Developer Connection Roadmap This folder contains a variety of 
       documents to assist you in finding the information you need on the 
       CD-ROMs, such as documentation roadmaps for the OS/2 and LAN System 
       online documentation. 


   °   Ordering Information This icon gives information and telephone numbers 
       about how to renew your subscription to The Developer Connection. 


   °   Responses from Prior Surveys This icon will let you browse the results 
       of the surveys included in previous versions of The Developer 
       Connection. 


   °   The Developer Connection for OS/2 From here you can access The 
       Developer Connection Catalog. 


   °   The Developer Connection User's Guide This program provides 
       information about installing and using The Developer Connection as 
       well as how to get support for this product. 


   °   The Developer Connection Survey This will present a customer survey 
       about The Developer Connection for OS/2 Volume 9 Special Edition. 




   Additionally, as part of The Developer Connection installation described 
   in this section, you may also optionally install The Developer Connection 
   Browser.  The Developer Connection Browser is a search tool that allows 
   you to view the technical library and other online documents or search 
   through the documents to locate information.  If you installed The 
   Developer Connection Browser, an additional icon to use it will be 
   included in The Developer Connection folder.

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