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WELCOME TO INTERBASE 5
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Installation notes and issues for InterBase 5
for Windows NT and Windows 95.

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INSTALLING INTERBASE 5

Complete installation instructions are in
Chapter 3 of the Operations Guide.

Windows system requirements: Windows 95 with
Service Pack 1 or Windows NT 4.0 with Service
Pack 3 with all recommended hotfixes. A full
install that includes InterBase, InterClient,
Adobe Acrobat Reader, and the full document
set requires approximately 36MB of disk space.
Only 11MB is needed to install the InterBase
product without InterClient, 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 5 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 is present on your database
server, you *must* uninstall it before
proceeding with the Version 5 install.

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GDS32.DLL

There must be one and only one copy of
gds32.dll on the server where InterBase 5
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 4.1 or earlier
was installed on the server, you must
remove the older gds32.dll file.

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