Determine what kind of installation best suits your needs and environment. There are Custom, Express, and Demonstration installs available.
Plan your installation, complete all appropriate worksheets, and keep the worksheets close at hand when you install the software.
Review all preinstallation tasks and installation options.
Read the release bulletins for the latest information on the products (Adaptive Server Enterprise, Sybase IQ, and so on) that you are installing.
Install operating system patches, if required. If you are having trouble starting the installer, make sure you have the required operating system patches for the Java Runtime Environment (JRE).
Use the Adaptive Server Configuration Guide to review SySAM procedures and plan your client/server configuration.
Make sure that there is sufficient available disk space, and that the path name of the directory does not contain any spaces.
Ensure 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 IQ client applications are installed on a machine that is not connected to a network.
If you are having connection problems or need to verify your network configuration, ping the host.
Allocate a shared memory segment that is at least as large as the Adaptive Server total logical memory configuration parameter.