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RLC Installation and Administration Guide 69
June 2005 Planning for RLC installation
Windows PC requirements
To use Configuration Manager, the administration PC must:
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be an IBM-compatible PC
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use a Windows 95, 98, NT Workstation 4.0, Millennium Edition (ME),
2000 Professional, or XP (Professional and Home Edition) operating
system with the Microsoft TCP/IP networking component installed
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be equipped with a CD-ROM drive
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be equipped with a 10BaseT Ethernet interface card
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have an available COM port if you wish to use the RS-232 serial port to
establish a direct serial connection
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be equipped with a pointing device, such as a mouse
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use Microsoft’s IP stack
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have 32 Mbytes of RAM for Windows 95, 98, and ME, or 64 Mbytes of
RAM for Windows NT Workstation 4.0, 2000 Professional, and XP
(Professional and Home Edition
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have 48 Mbytes of available storage for Windows 95, 98 and ME, or 64
Mbytes of available storage for Windows NT Workstation 4.0, 2000
Professional, and XP (Professional and Home Edition)
Note: Configuration Manager does not support any of the Win32 Server
versions of Microsoft Windows.
Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server
Firmware upgrades and configuration uploads require that the administration PC
have a TFTP server application installed. The administrator must know the TFTP
server’s IP address in the network. In other words, the IP address of the
administration PC.
You can use any TFTP server application. These applications are available free
of charge on the Internet.