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- Installation
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- Quick Install
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- Detailed Installation Instructions
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- For PCBoard to operate properly, you must install it on your system. The
- installation program provided on disk #1 will insure that PCBoard is properly
- installed. If you are installing PCBoard for the first time or upgrading a
- previous version, the installation program will get you running in a minimal
- amount of time.
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- Quick Install
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- If you have previously installed a version of PCBoard or are very familiar
- with installing a bulletin board, this section will provide you with only the
- necessary information that you will need to install PCBoard. If you require
- explanations of each of the questions that the install program will ask you,
- skip to the Detailed Installation Instructions section of this chapter.
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- PCBoard is supplied on both 3.5" and 5.25" disks. Both disk sets are the
- same. Select the disk size appropriate to your machine and insert Disk #1
- into your A or B drive as required. At the DOS prompt, enter:
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- a:install (ENTER) (if using Drive A)
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- b:install (ENTER) (if using Drive B)
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- The installation program will then ask you for the destination of your
- PCBoard installation on your hard disk (defaulting to C:\PCB), as well as
- verifying the source location of the installation disks (A or B above).
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- If you are upgrading from a previous version of PCBoard, or installing a
- registered copy of PCBoard in place of a demo copy, the installation program
- will automatically recognize your previous installation and will only update
- the necessary files required for the upgrade. In either case, the install
- program will not modify your previous configuration.
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- Continue with the installation by following the instructions that are
- displayed on the screen. When the installation is complete, change to the
- directory where you installed PCBoard and run BOARD.BAT.
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- Detailed Installation Instructions
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- PCBoard can be installed directly from the distribution disks, or from a
- temporary location on your hard disk. If you will be installing several
- copies of PCBoard on multiple machines in a network environment, it is
- suggested that you install from a temporary location on your main file
- server. For additional information on installing more than one node, refer
- to the Multiple Nodes chapter of this manual once PCBoard is installed.
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- If you are installing PCBoard for the first time, you will be asked to enter
- information regarding the System Operator (SysOp) - including their name,
- remote logon password, etc. Please be prepared to complete this information
- during the initial installation.
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- If you have downloaded a new release of PCBoard from Salt Air, follow the
- instructions under Upgrading a Current Installation from Hard Disk Files
- found later in this section.
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- At any time during the installation procedure, you may press E when a prompt
- is displayed to abort the installation. Files which have already been
- installed will not be removed from your hard disk. If you abort an initial
- installation and perform a subsequent complete installation, do not select
- the upgrade option since all files may not have been installed during the
- initial aborted install. Instead, tell the install program that you are
- performing a new installation to ensure all files are properly installed on
- your system.
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- Installing from the Distribution Disks
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- PCBoard is supplied on both 3.5" and 5.25" high-density disks. Both disk sets
- contain the same information. Select the disk size appropriate to your
- machine and insert Disk #1 into your A or B drive as required. At the DOS
- prompt, enter:
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- a:install (ENTER) (if using Drive A)
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- b:install (ENTER) (if using Drive B)
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- If you are upgrading from a previous version of PCBoard, or installing a
- registered copy of PCBoard in place of a demo copy, the installation program
- will automatically recognize your previous installation and will only update
- the necessary files required for the upgrade. In either case, the install
- program will not modify your previous configuration.
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- The installation program will then ask the following two questions:
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- Are you installing from a Floppy Drive ? Y
- Installing from Floppy Drive (A or B): ? A
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- You should enter a Y at the Are you installing from a Floppy Drive question,
- and enter the floppy drive letter you are installing from at the Installing
- from Floppy Drive (A or B) question. You may skip the next section,
- Installing from Hard Disk Files, and proceed with the section entitled
- Installation Instructions Common to All Installation Methods.
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- Installing from Hard Disk Files
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- NOTE: If you are installing PCBoard for the first time, you will be asked to
- enter information regarding the System Operator (SysOp) - including their
- name, remote logon password, etc. Please be prepared to complete this
- information during the initial installation.
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- PCBoard is supplied on both 3.5" and 5.25" high-density disks. Both disk sets
- contain the same information. Select the disk size appropriate to your
- machine and insert Disk #1 into your A or B drive as required. Next, decide
- on a temporary location on your hard disk to which you will be copying the
- distribution disks. This location must not be the same location that you
- will be installing PCBoard to. Next, copy the appropriate size distribution
- disks to that location by using the DOS COPY command. For example, if your
- temporary drive location is D:\TEMP, at the DOS prompt, enter:
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- COPY A:\*.* D:\TEMP (ENTER)
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- Repeat the above procedure for each distribution disk of the size chosen.
- Next, switch to your temporary file location and execute the install program.
- Assuming that you copied the files on the distribution disk to D:\TEMP, you
- would enter the following:
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- d: (ENTER)
- cd\temp (ENTER)
- install (ENTER)
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- If you are upgrading from a previous version of PCBoard, or installing a
- registered copy of PCBoard in place of a demo copy, the installation program
- will automatically recognize your previous installation and will only update
- the necessary files required for the upgrade. In either case, the install
- program will not modify your previous configuration.
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- The installation program will then ask the following question:
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- Are you installing from a Floppy Drive ? N
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- You should enter an N at the Are you installing from a Floppy Drive question
- which tells the installation program to proceed with the remainder of the
- installation without prompting for a floppy drive location.
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- Installation Instructions Common to All Installation Methods
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- Next, the installation program will display a screen briefly describing the
- installation process and will ask you to complete the following three
- questions:
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- Do you want to proceed with the installation ?
- Enter your destination drive (C) through (Z) ?
- Enter the directory path to install ?
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- At the Do you want to proceed with the installation? prompt, reply with a Y
- unless you do not have the required System Operator (SysOp) information
- available which includes the SysOp name and password to be used for local
- login.
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- At the Enter your destination drive (C) through (Z)? prompt, enter the hard
- disk drive location on which PCBoard will be installed. The drive that you
- enter should be a physical drive, not a ram drive or other temporary drive.
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- At the Enter the directory path to install? prompt, enter the subdirectory or
- path location on the drive previously indicated that you wish the PCBoard
- files to be installed to. This location defaults to \PCB. Unless you have a
- specific reason to change this location, it is strongly suggested that you
- accept the default location since PCBoard defaults to the \PCB location. If
- you change this location from the \PCB default, you will have to manually
- change all of the program defaults inside PCBSetup once the installation is
- complete.
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- After completing the above, the installation program will create the
- following subdirectories on the destination drive you have specified and in
- general will contain the files indicated (if you accept the default install
- location of \PCB):
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- \PCB Program executable files, system batch files, and
- node specific data files
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- \DL01 Can be used to place downloadable files here
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- \PCB\GEN Used to store system text files, menus, bulletins,
- and file listings
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- \PCB\HELP Used to store system help files
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- \PCB\MAIN Used to store USERS and MSGS files as well as other
- sensitive system files which need to be protected
- from downloading
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- \PCB\CONVERT Used to store conversion files which contain
- instructions on converting 12.x and earlier versions
- of PCBoard
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- \PCB\UPLOAD Used to store new public uploads to your system
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- \PCB\PRIVUPLD Used to store new private uploads to your system
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- Once the necessary subdirectories have been created, the installation program
- will copy and expand the files from the distribution disks to their
- appropriate locations on your hard disk. After all files have been
- successfully installed, the program will ask you the following:
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- Did you purchase a registered DOORWAY ? N
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- DOORWAY is an advanced serial and local screen I/O redirector which can be
- used to support remote DOS operations for the system operator as well as for
- running applications as a door. which have not been specifically written to
- operate as a door.. A non-registered version of the software is provided with
- your copy of PCBoard. If you have purchased a fully registered copy of
- DOORWAY with your copy of PCBoard and you have the registered DOORWAY disk
- available, answer Y to this question. Otherwise, accept the default of N and
- continue the installation process.
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- At a later date, you can purchase a registered copy of DOORWAY if desired.
- To update your configuration with the registered copy, replace the
- DOORWAY.EXE file in the directory where you installed PCBoard with the
- DOORWAY.EXE on your registered version disk.
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- NOTE: The non-registered version of DOORWAY that is supplied with your copy
- of PCBoard is limited to 10 minutes of activity each time you run it. Once
- the 10 minutes are up, you will be returned to PCBoard.
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- The installation program will then ask the following question:
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- Will you be running in a multitasking environment such as
- DESQview, TaskView or OmniView or DoubleDOS (Y/N) ? N
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- If you will be running multiple nodes on one machine under any of the above
- multitasking programs (including Windows or OS/2), you should answer Y to
- this question. If you answer Y, the installation program will automatically
- adjust your default COM port opening speed to insure proper multi-node modem
- operation. If at a later time you wish to adjust your COM port opening speed
- to either a higher or lower setting, you can do so using PCBSetup.
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- After indicating whether you will be running in a multitasking environment,
- the installation program will check your CONFIG.SYS file to insure you have a
- sufficient number of file handles defined for proper program operation. Each
- PCBoard node requires approximately 25 file handles for operation. If the
- installation program detects an insufficient number of handles, you will be
- asked if you wish to update your CONFIG.SYS file with an appropriate FILES=
- statement. If you do not allow the install program to update your CONFIG.SYS
- file, be sure to manually update it before attempting to run PCBoard.
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- Next, the program will ask you to complete the System Operator (SysOp)
- information by asking the following questions:
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- What is your first name ?
- What is your last name ?
- City/State Information ?
- Password for remote login ?
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- The password you enter in this screen will be the one the SysOp uses for
- remote access to this system. Since the integrity of the system can be
- jeopardized by unauthorized access, you should enter a password which is not
- used for accessing other systems. In other words, the password entered should
- be unique to this system only!
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- After completing the above, the program will create the system's USERS file
- and associated index files. This screen must be completed before attempting
- to access your system since the required USERS file information will not be
- present unless the above screen is properly completed.
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- The installation program will now ask if you wish to configure a modem for
- operation by asking the following:
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- Do you wish to Install a MODEM (Y/N) ?
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- In order to configure your modem at this time, it must be connected to your
- hardware and be powered on. If you do not have a modem connected, reply with
- an N to skip this operation. If you do have a modem, and it is connected and
- powered up, reply with a Y. The installation program will then run PCBModem
- which will setup your modem properly. For more information on PCBModem,
- refer to the Utilities chapter of this manual.
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- Once you have selected and initialized your modem, you will be returned to
- the PCBModem menu. Press E until you are informed that PCBSetup will be run.
- This is the next step in the installation process.
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- Next, the installation program will run PCBSetup so that you can alter some
- of the finer details of your configuration. If you are installing PCBoard
- for the first time, it is suggested that you immediately exit from PCBSetup
- without altering any of the default settings until you have reviewed the
- chapters in this manual which detail PCBSetup. To exit PCBoard without
- making changes, press E, and answer N to the question that you are asked.
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- Altering PCBoard's defaults at this time, without having a complete
- understanding of the overall operation of the program, can cause frustration
- in trying to put things back to their default settings at a later time.
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- Finally, the installation program will ask if you wish to view the WHATSNEW
- and Q&A.TXT (Questions and Answers) files. If you do, simply respond with a
- Y to both prompts and you will be shown the two files for review.
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- After completing the installation process, you are ready to run PCBoard by
- entering:
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- board (ENTER)
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- at the DOS prompt in the directory where you installed PCBoard.
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- NOTE: If you need to setup more than one node of PCBoard, proceed to the
- Multiple Nodes chapter of this manual for additional information.
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- Upgrading a Current Installation from Hard Disk Files
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- If you have already installed a demo version of PCBoard, or are upgrading
- your current registered version of PCBoard with a newer version, copy the
- upgrade files and/or disks supplied to a temporary location on your hard
- disk. This location must not be the same location as your current program
- location. For example, Using the location D:\TEMP as your temporary
- location, you would copy or place the files downloaded from the Salt Air BBS,
- or the disks supplied, to that location.
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- Next, change directories to the location where you copied the upgrade files
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- d: (ENTER)
- cd \temp (ENTER)
- install (ENTER)
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- Tell the installation program you are not installing from a floppy drive.
- When asked to enter the destination drive and path location for the software,
- enter the location of your current PCBoard files. At this point, the
- installation program will display a screen indicating that you have already
- installed PCBoard and ask if you wish to perform a new installation or an
- upgrade:
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- Would you like to Upgrade or install a New system (U/N) ? U
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- If you are doing a first-time reinstall of the software due a previously
- aborted installation, enter N. Otherwise, enter U for upgrade. Entering U
- will only upgrade the necessary files on your system, leaving all other
- configuration and data files intact.
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- CAUTION: DO NOT SELECT A NEW INSTALLATION IF YOU ARE SIMPLY UPGRADING A
- CURRENT SYSTEM AS ALL CURRENT DATA FILES WILL BE OVER-WRITTEN.
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