Preparing to install Sybase Search

Before installing Sybase Search:

Verify that you have write permission on the directories where you plan to install the Sybase Search software.
Make sure each server in the Sybase Search distributed environment meets the recommended or minimum requirements summarized in Table 2-1.

**Table 2-1: System requirements**
Operating system	Release level	RAM	Disk space
Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003, and XP 1GHZ minimum 2GHZ recommended	Any	512MB 1GB or more recommended	100MB for system files 1GB for indexed data
Sun Solaris 64-bit (SPARC)	OS 9 and above	512MB 1GB or more recommended	100MB for system files 1GB for indexed data

See the Technical Library Product Manuals Web sitehttp://www.sybase.com/support/manuals, or see the release bulletin for components that require operating system patches.