This section describes how to install DirectConnect using InstallShield. These procedures assume that:
The target computer meets the requirements outlined in Chapter 4, “Getting Ready to Install.”
You have completed the list of tasks for DirectConnect in “Pre-installation instructions.”
The installation program creates the target directory (if necessary) and loads all of the selected components into that directory.
You have three options for installing Sybase components from the distribution media using the installation program:
GUI (graphical user interface) mode, which allows you to install the components using the InstallShield interface.
Console mode, which allows you to install components using a command line interface.
Response file mode, which allows you to record or create a response file. Using a response file, you can install DirectConnect two different ways:
Silent, which lets you install the product without any interaction required on your part. This is convenient if you are performing identical installations on multiple machines.
Interactive installation using response file, which lets you install interactively, but with all the responses already filled in, so that you can accept or change the default values and install DirectConnect according to the responses in the response file. This can be convenient if several sites are installing DirectConnect and must conform to a standard installation.
Each of these options is described in the following sections.
Sybase recommends that you use the GUI mode for installing DirectConnect.
