Castanet Transmitter Installation Instructions

Windows 95 and Windows NT4.0

Double click on the icon of the self extracting archive. This will launch the install shield wizard which will guide you through the installation.

You need a PC running Windows 95 or Windows NT4.0 with at least 8Mb of RAM and about 10Mb of free disk space. The software works under Windows NT but it needs more testing before we can officially support that platform.


Solaris 2.x on SPARC

Uncompress and untar the compressed tar file in a temporary directory of your choice. For example:
    prompt> mkdir /tmp/transmitter
    prompt> mv transmitter0_x.tar.Z /tmp/transmitter
    prompt> cd /tmp/transmitter
    prompt> uncompress transmitter0_x.tar.Z
    prompt> tar xvf transmitter0_x.tar
Then, use pkgadd to install the package. You must be root to use pkgadd.
    prompt# pkgadd -d /tmp/transmitter
    ...

pkgadd will ask you some configuration questions, and then install the software. Once the software is installed, you can start the transmitter using the start/stop script in the directory "/etc/init.d". For example:
    prompt# /etc/init.d/transmitter start
will start the transmitter, and
    prompt# /etc/init.d/transmitter stop
will stop it.

You need a SPARCStation running Solaris2.4 or higher with at least 16Mb of RAM and about 10Mb of free disk space.


Reconfiguring the transmitter

It is now easier to reconfigure your transmitter. Just fire it up with no arguments, and it will pop up a GUI-based configure program which walks you though all the steps of configuring and then running your transmitter. You run it like this:
    prompt> cd /opt/MRBtrans
    prompt> castanet/transmitter/bin/transmitter
Note that if you change the data directory for your transmitter in this way, you need to edit the /etc/transmitter.conf file if you want the new directory to be used when the machine reboots.