Bit o' background first... I'm the UNIX/Oracle guy here at the office. I've no background in Baan at all. I have a spare Sun lying around with a rather large StorEdge array. I'd like to install Baan in its most simplistic fashion so that I can play with it and try to learn a bit about it.

How does one perform a simple install? I've got the master tape, done the mas.read6.1 and received a gaggle of 'Package VRC' to choose from (the default being all). I'm thinking that I can strip out most of this stuff (like Nascar, etc) but I don't know what the VRC choices mean at all (example output attached). :rolleyes:

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I'll be installing on a Sun Ultra 2 Ent. running Solaris 9. I've got 2x200MHz CPUs with 512MB RAM under the hood and 50GB RAID. I've already got running a local install of Oracle 8.1.7.

Again, this is only to be a sandbox so I don't really worry about "performance". All I really care to get is a "true" install that is worth testing/playing on, but not a "production" machine. (If any of that makes sense)

Any help you might be able to provide would be most helpful.

Cheers,
FT

You should get some training on VRCs, package VRCs and package Combinations, these are the most important features of Baan.

Since you just want a basic Baan setup, select all the xxB40_c4 packages, these are the standard ones, and leave out all the other ones (the xxB40Lc4yyyy, these are localizations you do not need).

Ah ha! That makes good sense. I aborted my install and redid it using your suggestion. mas.read6.1 sure went faster for sure!

Actually, the install I aborted was the fourth install attempt. I was able to track down our installation manual (and box of other docs) which identified a slight problem with my method. This is kind of fun - but darn, does it ever take a LONG time to build. Whoa!

This should be an interesting exercise... I'll post again with my success (or lack thereof).

Cheers, and thank you for your help with the VRC confusion!

FT