Preinstallation Tasks

This topic describes tasks to perform before installation.

• Read the release bulletins for the latest information on the products that you are installing. Pay close attention to the Special Installation Instructions section. Release bulletins for InfoMaker are available in the product package on the Getting Started CD, and on the Product Documents Web site at http://www.sybase.com/support/manuals/. The release bulletins at this site sometimes contain more recent information than the bulletins on the Getting Started CD. A readme.txt file for SQL Anywhere is available in the SQLAnywhere12 directory on the DVD.
• Make sure the drive where you install InfoMaker is not compressed. If compression is enabled on the installation drive, the setup program fails.
• Make sure you have a TEMP environment variable that points to an existing directory location with at least 300MB free space. The setup programs write files to this directory during the installation and free the space after the installation is complete.
• Close any open applications.
• Back up any files created with earlier versions of Sybase tools. Make sure that any PBLs you plan to migrate have been regenerated without error in your current version of InfoMaker before you back them up.

  In addition to backing up your PBLs, back up any files that contain information you do not want to lose, such as database files, INI files, preference information, and modified database definition files. For more information about backing up and migrating existing applications, see Postinstallation Tasks.

• Read Software Requirements to determine whether you need to install any software before installing InfoMaker.