Before installing Adaptive Server:
Create a “sybase” account on your system to perform all installation tasks. The “sybase” user must have permission privileges from the top (or root) of the disk partition or operating system directory down to the specific physical device or operating system file.
Log in to the machine as the “sybase” user. Maintain consistent ownership and privileges for all files and directories. A single user—the Sybase System Administrator with read, write, and execute permissions—should perform all installation, upgrade, and setup tasks.
Decide where to install the Adaptive Server software. Make sure there is sufficient disk space available. Do not use any spaces in the path name of the directory.
4 Verify that the operating system meets the version level, RAM, and network protocol requirements for your platform.
Verify that your network software is configured.
Sybase software uses network software even if Adaptive Server and Sybase client applications are installed on a machine that is not connected to a network.
Ping the host if you are having connection problems, or to verify your network configuration.
Adjust shared memory segments.
Depending on the number and types of devices you use for backup (dump) and recovery (load), you may need to adjust the shared memory segment parameter in the operating system configuration file to accommodate concurrent Backup Server processes. The default number of shared memory segments available for process attachments is 6.
If you are having trouble starting the installer, make sure you have the required operating system patches for the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.4.2.
For information about the required operating system patches, see the JRE vendor Web site.
You must know what product edition you are installing. The options are:
Developer Edition
Enterprise Edition Evaluation
You must decide if you want licensing events to trigger e-mail alerts and what severity causes e-mail alerts.
If you choose to have e-mail notification of license events, you must know the:
SMTP server host name
Port number for an SMTP server
E-mail return address
Recipients of the notifications
Severity level of an event that will trigger mail. Your choices are:
None
Informational
Warning
Error
