1. At a minimum you will need a fast machine as a "server" with a drive for the operating system and application programs and 40 GB of free hard disk space. These instructions will present only one possible setup using two large hard drives of 20 GB each. (Note — much larger drives are now available) You may use DOS or other operating systems, but the procedures outlined here are designed for Windows 95/98. After installing an operating system on this computer, create directories for the FamilySearch CDs and load the data as follows:

   Note: The rest of these instructions are written for the hardware configuration of a single machine as a server with three hard drives, C: is a small, in this case 4 GB drive, while D: and E: are 20 GB each and Y: is the CD-ROM.

• Create the directories shown below. Pasnet is the directory for the network version of FamilySearch. (type these commands from the DOS prompt or create the directories using Windows Explorer)

  MD C:\PASNET
MD D:\IGI
MD E:\AF
MD E:\AD
MD E:\SS
MD E:\SCR
MD E:\MI
MD E:\LC
• Copy all the data from the CDs into the proper directories using Windows Explorer or XCOPY from a DOS prompt. The commands provided are to be used from a DOS prompt.
• Copy all the IGI CDs into D:\IGI directory (17.5 GB)
• Type xcopy Y:\*.* d:\igi\ /e and press Enter.
• After the first disc has been copied, insert the second disc into the drive and repeat the previous step. Select (A)ll when prompted to overwrite the same files.
• Repeat the previous steps for all the IGI disks. Total on D: drive: 17.5 GB
• Copy the IGI Addendum CDs into the E:\AD directory (8.4 GB)
• Type xcopy Y:\*.* e:\ad\ /e and press Enter.
• After the first disc has been copied, insert the second disc into the drive and repeat the previous step.
• Repeat the previous steps for all the IGI Addendum disks.
• Copy Ancestral File CDs into E:\AF directory (5.6 GB)
• Type xcopy Y:\*.* e:\af\ /e and press Enter.
• After the first disc has been copied, insert the second disc into the drive and repeat the previous step.
• Repeat the previous steps for all the AF disks.
• Copy the U.S. Social Security Death Index CDs into the E:\SS directory (1.5 GB)
• Type xcopy Y:\*.* e:\ss\ /e and press Enter.
• After the first disc has been copied, insert the second disc into the drive and repeat the previous step.
• Repeat the previous steps for all the SS disks.
• Copy the Scottish Church Records CD into the E:\SCR directory (630 MB)
• Type xcopy Y:\*.* e:\scr\ /s/e/v and press Enter.
• Copy the Military Index CD into the E:\MI directory (500 MB)
• Type xcopy Y:\*.* e:\mi\ /s/e/v and press Enter.
• Copy Family History Library Catalog CD into E:\LC directory (450 MB)
• Type xcopy Y:\*.* e:\lc\ /s/e/v and press Enter. Total on E: drive: 17.08 GB

2. In the C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT file (on the server only) add the following lines to the end, but before any menu commands: (using any editor such as the DOS Edit or Windows Notepad)

   SUBST P: C:\PASNET
SUBST H: E:\AD
SUBST I: E:\AF
SUBST J: D:\IGI
SUBST K: E:\LC
SUBST L: E:\MI
SUBST M: E:\SCR
SUBST N: E:\SS
3. If you are installing the system on only one machine, not on a network, then skip to step 7.
4. Restart the machine so these changes take effect. Next you will need to share these data drives so other machines can "see" them. To do this, open Windows Explorer, highlight each directory, right click the mouse and select share. Share the drives with the same names as above, or in other words, share "D:\IGI" as "J" and "E:\AD" as H", etc. This will make the data drives available from each machine on the network.
5. Once you have built a simple "peer to peer" network (procedure not discussed here, see note at end), you should "Map a Network Drive" to the same letter on each computer in the network. For example, on another system in the network, map the J: drive to \\ServerName\J. Each additional machine added to the network should also share the drive as "J". This will serve to standardize the network, configuration files, and ease troubleshooting in the future.
6. On each new machine in the network, in addition to mapping the shared drives, create a directory for the networked FamilySearch (Type MD C:\PASNET at a DOS prompt). The add the one line to the C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT file for the PASNET directory (SUBST P: C:\PASNET) (again, before any menu commands in the file)
7. Next you should load FamilySearch. I recommend you load it twice. Once for normal operation using the CD-ROMs and once using the network. First install FamilySearch normally on the C: drive. This will be used as a backup and works with CD-ROMs if the network is down. This will be installed in the C:\PAS directory.
8. Install FamilySearch again, but this time click on "Start", then "Run" and (if Y: is your CD-ROM drive) type "Y:\Setup network". Answer that you wish to install it on the P: drive.
9. The program will ask the drive letters where you loaded the data CD-ROMs.

   The window looks like this.

   If you installed to this point exactly as recommended, then the settings should match your drive settings and no changes are necessary here.

10. After checking the information and making any needed changes, click Continue.
11. When you are prompted to Select type of Install: You should select option B. Data on multiple drives.
12. Do not make any changes to the drive assignments during installation, simply press F12.
13. Complete the installation normally setting the printer as desired. If you have only one printer on the network, it can be shared easily also. However, the exact instructions are not covered here. Simply put, you must share the printer on the network, them map the printer to the client machine capturing the LPT1: port and then install FamilySearch identifying that type of printer. If this is confusing to you contact your network expert to share the printer.

14. After the installation is complete, you can make changes to the setup files as desired. However, for the system to work over a network, no changes to the setup files are necessary. You may wish to change the number of generations in Ancestral File. Ancestral File limits the number of generations you can search to only 13. You may change this limit as outlined below. To make these changes, open the file you wish to change with an editor such as the DOS Edit or Windows Notepad. In the file P:\PAS\AF\AFSETUP.TXT
    - increase the generations limit by changing the following lines:

    MAXGOBACK=100
MAXGENS=99
15. Set up each additional machine on the network with Windows 95/98. Each computer should have a network card and be connected through an Ethernet Hub or via coax (thin wire Ethernet) to the peer to peer network. Make sure the line is added as before to the AUTOEXEC.BAT (SUBST P: C:\PASNET). Finally map the H: through N: drives from the server as described previously.
16. If you have not previously installed PAF on each system, do so now. Make sure you install it using the "network" parameter as in step 8. If you would rather copy instead of reinstalling FamilySearch, you can copy the C:\PAS and C:\PASNET directory over the network to each new machine (using Windows Explorer or XCOPY). Note: This will copy all the settings including the printer settings.

I have created a zip file of the PASNET directory. It is 3.99 Megs. Click Here to go to the Yahoo group page. Login, then click Files on the left side. Then click on PASNET.zip file. You will need a Zip program to unzip the directory. It can be used as your directory or as a reference for you.

This directory can be copied to each computer, including the server. Add the following command to the autoexec.bat file on each computer —
subst p: c:\pasnet (Note: there is a space before and after the p:)

I usually have a c:\pas directory for running FamilySearch off the cd's and the c:\pasnet directory mapped to the p: drive so there is a p:\pas directory.

• You will need to restart the computer to load the subst command in the autoexec file.
• Then go to Windows Explorer and move to the P: drive, open the pas directory and locate the pas.exe file (about 284K). You can right click on pas.exe and drag it outside the Windows Explorer screen and drop it. Windows will prompt you to Move, Copy or Create Shortcut. You want to create a shortcut.
• Next right click on the new icon, and rename to Network FamilySearch
• Right click again and select properties.
• Click on the screen tab and click on full screen.
• Click on the program tab and click near the bottom - to close on exit
• Next click on change icon - click on browse - select an icon or move to the p:\pas directory and select the FamilySearch icon.
• After you select the icon, click ok, then click apply and ok to close the icon property window.

You will still need to map the drive letters as explained above.

Rick Klemetson