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- Netscape 6 Preview Release Read Me
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- Netscape 6 is subject to the terms detailed in the license
- agreement accompanying it.
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- This read-me file contains information about system requirements
- and installation instructions.
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- Before you install Netscape 6, be sure to read the Release Notes,
- which describe known problems and installation issues:
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- http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/ns6/relnotes/pv6-2.html
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- To submit bugs or other feedback, from the Help menu choose
- Feedback Center.
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- System Requirements
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- *Mac OS
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- -System 8.5 or later
- -604/200 MHz or faster processor
- -48 MB RAM
- -36 MB of free hard disk space on an HFS+ volume (to install
- all components)
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- *Windows
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- -Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, or Windows 2000
- -Pentium 133 MHz (or faster) processor
- -32 MB of RAM (or greater) for Windows 95/98; 48 MB of RAM
- (or greater) for Windows NT and Windows 2000
- -26 MB of free hard disk space
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- *Unix
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- -Red Hat Linux 6.0 or later [Note: Netscape 6 is certified and
- fully supported on Red Hat Linux, but will run on other Linux
- distributions, such as Debian 2.1 (or later) or SuSE 6.2
- (or later). The libraries glibc 2.1 (or higher) and
- libjpeg.so.62 (or higher) are required.]
- -Pentium 133 MHz (or faster) processor
- -64 MB of RAM
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- Installation Instructions
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- For Mac OS and Windows users, it is strongly recommended that you
- exit all programs before running the setup program. Also, you
- should temporarily disable virus-detection software.
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- Install into a clean (new) directory. Installing on top of released
- product builds may cause problems.
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- *Installation Instructions -- Windows
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- 1. If you are installing from the CD:
- - Double-click the Windows directory on the Netscape 6
- CD to open it, if you haven't done so already.
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- If you are downloading from the Netscape site:
- - Click the N6Setup.exe link to download it to your
- machine.
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- 2. Double-click the N6Setup program icon on your machine
- to begin the Setup program.
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- 3. Follow the on-screen instructions in the Setup program.
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- 4. To start Netscape, double-click the Netscape 6 icon in
- the Netscape 6 folder.
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- *Installation Instructions -- Mac OS
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- 1. If you are installing from the CD:
- - Skip to step 3 now.
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- If you are downloading from the Netscape site:
- - Click the Netscape6Installer.sea.bin link to download it
- to your machine.
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- By default, the download file (compressed, in .bin format)
- is downloaded to your desktop.
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- If the downloaded file does not expand automatically, you
- must expand the file using a program such as StuffIt Expander.
- If you don't have StuffIt Expander, you can get a copy by
- visiting:
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- http://www.aladdinsys.com/expander/expander_mac_login.html
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- 2. Double-click the Netscape6Installer folder.
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- 3. Double-click the Netscape 6 Installer icon.
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- 4. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation
- process.
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- 5. To start Netscape, double-click the Netscape 6 icon in
- the Netscape 6 folder.
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- *Installation Instructions -- Unix
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- 1. If you are installing from the CD:
- - Change to the Linux directory on the CD: cd linux. Then skip to
- step 3.
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- If you are downloading from the Netscape site:
- - Download the netscape-i686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz archive.
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- 2. Untar the archive:
- gzip -dc netscape-i686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz | tar -xvf
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- 3. Change to the "netscape-installer" directory: cd netscape-installer
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- 4. Run the Netscape 6 Installer with the run script: ./netscape-installer
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- 5. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation
- process.
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- 6. To start Netscape, change to the directory where you installed it
- and run the program: ./netscape
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