User`s guide

IBM Lotus Notes, Domino, Domino Designer 8 Release Notes

Considerations before installing -- Read this first

The following information is useful when installing or upgrading Lotus Notes 8 on a Microsoft Windows

client.

Note: See the requirements section of the release notes for the latest information on supported hardware

and software.

When installing for multi-user, you must be logged in as an administrative user. Once installed, users

can open and use Lotus Notes 8.

Lotus Notes 8 installation on Windows supports Windows XP, and Vista Aero.

You can install Lotus Notes 8 on Windows in a single or multi-user environment.

While a minimum of 512MB of memory is required, 1GB or more of memory is recommended. See the

"Software requirements" section of the release notes for details.

A summary panel displays the disk space footprint for what is being installed. Install also needs

additional temporary disk space. The temporary disk space required is almost as large as the

footprint. If you do not have enough space for the footprint and temporary space, the installer will stop

you from continuing.

Shut down all applications before installing Lotus Notes 8.

If you have installed a previous Beta version of Lotus Notes 8, uninstall it before installing Lotus Notes

8. Upgrade from a Beta version of this release is not supported.

Smart Upgrade is not supported in Lotus Notes 8 Beta.

Shared network install is not supported in Lotus Notes 8. Shared network install of Lotus Notes 8

basic configuration remains available.

Roaming user is not supported in Lotus Notes 8. Roaming user in Lotus Notes 8 basic configuration

remains available.

Lotus Notes 8 supports the English US OS locale only.

The IBM productivity tools support the English US OS locale only.

The installation path cannot contain special characters such as # or $.

Only one instance of Lotus Notes 8 should be installed on a client workstation at any given time.

If installation does not complete successfully, uninstall the program using the instructions in the

"Uninstalling Notes on Windows" release note and reference the information in the "Cleaning a

previous Notes installation from your client" release note.

Procedure -- Installing Lotus Notes 8 Beta for Windows

Read the considerations section above before starting Lotus Notes 8 installation.

Installation of Lotus Notes 8 on Windows is supported for single user or multi-user. For Windows, the

Lotus Notes client-only is available in the Notes.msi.w32 installation media kit. The Allclient kit is not

available for multi-user installation.

1. Shut down all applications.

2. If you have installed a previous Beta version of this Lotus Notes release, uninstall it before continuing.

See the "Uninstalling Notes on Windows" release note for details.

3. Obtain the Lotus Notes installation media kit.

4. Save the installation media kit to a local folder, for example to your C:\temp folder.

5. Navigate to the folder in which you saved the installation media kit.