3 Installing Eloquence on the Windows 32 bit platform
Installation on Windows NT and Windows 95
This document provides installation instructions for Eloquence on the 32 bit Windows platform. This applies to Windows NT and Windows 95.
Installation Prerequisites
The following prerequisites must be met before installing the Eloquence software on a system. Failing to do so will either cause the installation process to fail or will prohibit the successfully use of Eloquence.
- Eloquence makes use of the TCP/IP protocol to interchange data between different processes even when used on the local computer only. No network card or dialup connection is required, but the TCP/IP protocol stack must be installed and configured before installing Eloquence.
- As usual, all applications should be closed before installing or upgrading Eloquence. The setup program may need to update shared components on your system and may require a reboot in order to do so.
- The Eloquence server software can only be installed on the Windows NT platform. On the Windows 95 platform, the installation program will disable all software packages which are not compatible.
- If you are upgrading the Eloquence software on your system, you should stop all running Eloquence software before installation. This includes any Eloquence related services (eloqsd and eloqdb6 service). Failing to do so will require a reboot of your system and may result in a failure during the installation process.
- When installing Eloquence server software on Windows NT, administrative capabilities are required. The server software is disabled by the installation program unless administrative capabilities are available. The installation of the Eloquence software is continued even if administrative capabilities are not available (a warning box provides a warning notice) but may fail subsequently depending on security policy (registry write access is required to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT).
- You should not install the Eloquence HTML documentation (reference manuals) on a FAT filesystem. Since this includes more then 1000 rather small files this may take considerable space on a FAT filesystem depending on cluster size. We recommend to install the Eloquence HTML documentation on a Web server in your local network.
Installing a Standalone system
A full functional standalone system can only be installed on a Windows NT system, since the Eloquence server programs are not available on Windows 95. However the Eloquence IDE and the Eloquence runtime can also be installed standalone on a Windows 95 system.
In order to configure the TCP/IP protocol, a network adapter is required on Windows. However, if your system does not have a network card installed you can use the following configuration:
- Windows NT
- On the Windows NT platform you can install the MS Loopback Adapter. You are required to configure an IP address for the Loopback Adapter. We recommend to use an IP address reserved for internal usage (such as 192.168.1.1 with the Subnet mask 255.255.255.0) as defined by RFC 1597.
- Windows 95
- On the Windows 95 platform you can configure the Dial-Up Adapter as some kind of generic device. This is sufficient to bind the TCP/IP protocol. No further configuration is required.
This makes it possible to install the TCP/IP protocol. You can use the host name "localhost" or the IP number 127.0.0.1 to reference your local system since this is used by TCP/IP to address the local system.
Eloquence Installation and Configuration - 19 DEC 2002