Installation guide

6-2 Software upgrades and conversions

Meridian Mail Card Option Release 9.0

Unless you have also ordered additional capabilities for your system, you do

not have to enter a keycode to upgrade the software.

Precautions

If you have ordered additional capabilities for your system, you will use the

same keycode to enable them after the software upgrade or conversion. You

must enable them one at a time and in the following order:

• Software upgrade or conversion

• Hardware modification (Refer to page 7-2.)

• Storage expansion (Refer to page 7-3.)

• Language expansion (Refer to page 7-5.)

• Feature expansion (Refer to page 7-6.)

Failure to follow this order may cause problems with the system.

Of course, not all systems will require each of these steps—simply skip the

ones you don’t have to perform, but maintain the order. Don’t, for instance,

attempt a feature expansion before a language expansion.

Performing a software upgrade or conversion

To perform a software upgrade or conversion:

Perform a full backup of the Meridian Mail system. (Refer to page 4-7.)

2 Run the System Installation and Modification Utility from the Meridian

Mail software tape. (Refer to Chapter 2.)

3 From the System Installation and Modification Menu, choose

“2 Upgrade to the latest MM9 release”.

“3 Convert MM8 system to MM9 system”.

Note:

If your system is of an earlier release than MM-8, you must first convert

from that release to MM-8 and then proceed to convert to MM-9. You can convert

to MM-8 from any release labelled 1.x—1.10 or 1.12c, for example—but you must

use an MM-8 software tape.

4 Respond to the prompts as they appear.