These installation instructions apply to Discus and Discus Pro 3.10 and lower (there are separate instructions for unix telnet upgrade for Discus and Discus Pro 4.0). Note that the xxx in the file names represents the patch number and international distribution, if any, that you have downloaded.

If you are upgrading from version 3.01 or before to version 3.10, please read these important upgrade instructions.

1. Download the Discus tar gzipped file, discus3_10_xxx.tar.gz, from the DiscusWare web site. Using binary mode, transfer this file by FTP to any directory on your Unix web server. (Do not extract this file on your own computer and transfer individual files up to your server.)

2. Open a telnet or SSH session to your server and change to the directory where you uploaded the distribution.

   cd discus_download_directory

3. Unzip and extract the tar archive. This will create a subdirectory called discus3_10 with the installation files.)

   tar -xzvf discus3_x.tar.gz

   Unfortunately, this does not work on some Unix systems. If the above command fails, use this command instead:

   gzip -dc discus3_x.tar.gz | tar -xvf -

4. Use Perl to run the upgrade script in the UNIX shell.

   cd discus3_10
perl upgrade.pl

5. After answering the questions asked by upgrade.pl, you should log in to your board as the board administrator (generally, username "admin"). If any additional upgrade steps are required, you will be prompted upon logging in. You can confirm your new version by going to your Version Manager.