Unload the release on your system and install it

General guidelines

Those already familiar with administration of Razor under UNIX will notice that the classic installation steps (uncompress, tar xf, rz_install) have been replaced by an automated install script. Once installed, you will find "Razor" installed on the Start menu.

The installation enforces certain rules, including, but not limited to...

• Installation must by performed by Administrator.
• Installation must be installed on an NTFS partition.
• Installation path must not contain embedded spaces.

Among other things the installation will create directory /tmp, if it does not already exist, at the root level of the partition containing the Razor installation.

Since Razor installs as "Razor", a conflict exists with pre-4.1e installations of RazorPC clients which installed as "Razor". If RazorPC clients are already installed, they must first be un-installed before installing Razor.

NOTE: Starting with the 4.1e release, installations of the RazorPC clients will install as "RazorPC".

Prior to installing...

Prior to actually installing RazorNT Server, be sure to...

• Determine the NTFS partition on which RazorNT Server will be installed.
• Determine whether or not IssueWeaver is to be installed. A web server¹ installation must already be installed to install IssueWeaver. Once RazorNT Server is installed, IssueWeaver may be installed at any time.
• Determine the location for Razor databases. Razor databases must reside on an NTFS partition.

Doing the install

• Login as Administrator.
• Terminate all windows applications.
• Un-install the old RazorPC (pre 4.1e) client installation if it exists.
• Install RazorNT Server and RazorPC. Both may be installed from the single self-extracting executable "Razor_<version>.exe".
• Reboot the machine.
• Login as Administrator.

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