Chapter 3

A1: Two methods are available: the DB2 Setup Wizard and Silent install.
A2: Four methods are available: the DB2 Setup wizard, Silent install, the db2_install script, and the operating system's native install tools.
A3: The default instance name is db2inst1. The user owner ID db2inst1 is created as well. If db2inst1 already exists, DB2 will try db2inst2, db2inst3, and so on.
A4: An alternate FixPak contains all fixes, as does a regular FixPak, but the fixes are built into the product. Moreover, it is installed under a different directory, so DB2 treats it as a different product. This way you can have different DB2 FixPak levels for the same version on the same computer.
A5: By default, three logs are generated under the /tmp directory: db2setup.his, ...

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