Upgrade 40GB Teradata Express to 1TB

Asked By Martha Bernardo 0 points N/A Posted on - 01/05/2012

I just bought a 40GB Image Teradata Express 2 months ago. After frequent usage, it’s started to run out of space already. I would like to ask if anyone of you knows how to upgrade my 40GB Image Teradata Express to a 1TB Image Teradata Express. Also, please recommend to me safe and reliable methods in upgrading my 40GB Image Teradata Express. Thanks a bunch to those who can help.

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Answered By Akol ben 0 points N/A #114066

Upgrade 40GB Teradata Express to 1TB

This is an installation Guide of Teradata Express 40GB to 1TB

 

First:

 

1. Download the latest version of VMWare Workstation

2. Download Teradata Express 40GB

3. Download Teradata Express 1TB

 

Tips:

 

For extra safety if something goes wrong when installing, copy or duplicate the files.

 

 

The installation guide:

 

1.Install VMWare.

   VMware-workstation-full-7.1.4-385536

   Download from www.vmware.com

   Restart PC twice (if you uninstall)

 

2. Open VMWare

    Open a spare copy (i.e. H:virtual-machines40GB Uncompressed1sles10)

    —Some people suggest bridged, others suggest NAT network. With Bridged I loose network all together as it sees my          Ethernet as down, so I chose NAT. Is this right?

 

3. Power On the Virtual Machine

    Note: The Powerup takes a long time the first time

 

4. Select SLES10 Operating system

    UserID : root

    PWD : root

    Welcome to your newly built SLES10 OS complete with Teradata!!!

 

5. Restart the machine. This is done as its a first time startup, get a feel for startup time

   Ctrl+R or VM>Power>Restart

 

6. Select SLES10 Operating system

    UserID : root

    PWD : root

    NB: we need to install VMWare Tools First

 

7. Select VM>Install VMWare Tools

    This will open VMWare Tools File Browser

 

8. Mount the cdrom

    Open Gnome Terminal and type

    mkdir /mnt/cdrom

    mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

    The response should indicate a write-protected disk which is read-only

 

9. Uncompress the installer to the mounted cd

    cd /tmp

    tar zxpf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-8.4.6-385536.tar.gz

    This step takes a while as it is a large archive to uncompress

 

9. Unmount the image and run the VMWare Tools Installer

    umount /dev/cdrom 

    cd vmware-tools-distrib

    ./vmware-install.pl

 

10. Accept all default answers.

      The VMWare Tools has been installed previously

       Press enter to accept each default

      There are many defaults (around directories)

      Accept when vmware-config-tools.pl, 

      runs after the installer file finishes running.

 

11. Networking on the virtual machine will be interrupted 

       To restore network type in gnome:

       /etc/init.d/network stop

        rmmod vmxnet

       modprobe vmxnet

      /etc/init.d/network start

 

12. Log out of the root account.

      Using the same gnome session

       xit

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