Installation for OA 5.25 - January 2011
There have not been any large changes to the installation process in this release. The usual process is:
Copy the studentnumber file (which contains the next available student number), the term file (which contains the current term) and the receiptnumber file (if present),(which contains the next receipt number for the fees system).
Copy the repcard.conf file (report card system) to the new etc folder from the old etc folder if changed, while renaming the new ones with a .525 ending. Do the same for any other .conf files that have been changed in previous install. (Look at file dates)
Now update the meta data by using the metadata update script on the eoy (end of year) page. It is the Update Metadata button. You could also empty the meta table and use the meta475.sql script also. However, I would suggest the the button method, with minimal changes.