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WELCOME TO INTERBASE 6.Open
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Installation notes and issues for InterBase 6
for Windows NT, Windows 95/98, and Windows 2000 


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INSTALLING INTERBASE 6

Complete installation instructions are in
Chapter 1 of Getting Started.

Windows system requirements: Windows 98, Windows 95
with Service Pack 1 or Windows NT 4.0 with Service
Pack 5 or Windows 2000. A full install that includes 
InterBase, Adobe Acrobat Reader, and the full document 
set requires approximately 44MB of disk space. Only
11MB is needed to install the InterBase product
without the documents or Acrobat Reader.

You cannot install InterBase onto a network
drive.

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OLDER VERSIONS OF INTERBASE

It is recommended that you uninstall any
previous versions of InterBase that are
present on the server where you are installing
the InterBase 6 software. With this software,
as with any software, it is recommended to
remove any field test versions prior to
installing. If InterBase 4.1 or earlier or any
Classic InterBase is present on your database
server, you *must* uninstall it before
proceeding with the Version 6 install.

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GDS32.DLL

There must be one and only one copy of
gds32.dll on the server where InterBase is
running. If gds32.dll exists on the server
because you have previously installed Borland
Database Engine as part of Delphi, C++Builder,
or another Borland product, or because
InterBase 5 or earlier was installed on the
server, you must remove the older gds32.dll
file prior to installing this Field Test.

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TO CREATE A DATABASE

Run IBConsole.  Log in as SYSDBA
password is "masterkey".  Do not
type the quotation marks.  Do change
the password.