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* Installation woes @ 2004-10-18 13:56 Richard Sydney-Smith <richard@ibisaustralia.com> 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Richard Sydney-Smith @ 2004-10-18 13:56 UTC (permalink / raw) To: pgsql-sql Fundamentally if the user wants to run my software then I want to get it running on their hardware. If after they have tried it ( and hopefully liked it) they want to use it as a business tool then I am in a position to HIGHLY recommend the necessary upgrades to hardware/OS etc that they may need. Firstly there are no complaints about postgres or the installer both work very well. q1: I would like an almost silent install and to that effect have located the following on the installer project site: msiexec /i postgresql-8.0-beta2-dev3.msi datadir="C:\ghum\data" LISTENPORT=5432 INITDBOK=1 DOSERVICE=1 DOINITDB=1 SERVICEID="pgsql-80-beta-2" SERVICENAME="PostgreSQL Database Server 8.0 beta 2" SERVICEACCOUNT="postgres" SERVICEPASSWORD="PasswordUserPostgres" SERVICEPASSWORDV="PasswordUserPostgres" LOCALE="german" ENCODING="LATIN1" SUPERUSER="postgres" SUPERPASSWORD="leberwurst" SUPERPASSWORDV="leberwurst" I would like the installer to show a "You are installing PostgreSQL V 8 " banner with a pointer to the postgresql.org website but still bypass the normal installation questions.. q2: Is the above command in a format that is going to be supported in later versions? q3: Fat32 limitation. I have no evidence of the number of machines using FAT32 with W2000 / XP but I expect it will be significant. What I think I will have to do is put up a web page explaining the issues unless such a page already exists with the postgres documentation? q4: another option may be the cywin + postgres project. Does this let users access older operating systems W98 / Millenium edition? If so then is there a package my installer program can run? ie check OS/environment if ok run pg v8 else give warning / option and install cygwin+postgres. I don't mind if the install for W98 /fat32 is an older version of postgres. Indeed an older version would be helpful in emhasising the need to upgrade. I suppose posgresql is not "normally" a enduser software product. It has been designed as an industrial strength RDBMS for installation by professionals. In that environment it excells. I will lookforward to hearing how others are tackling the "embedded install". best regards Richard Sydney-Smith --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.772 / Virus Database: 519 - Release Date: 1/10/2004 ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: Installation woes @ 2004-10-18 15:12 Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net> 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Magnus Hagander @ 2004-10-18 15:12 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Richard Sydney-Smith <richard@ibisaustralia.com>; pgsql-sql a1: Not 100% sure waht you are looing for. Try adding "/qb" and see if that is what you meant :-) a2: That exact commandline may not be supported. But we intend to support commandline-driven silent installs, yes. a3: See the installer FAQ on http://pginstaller.projects.postgresql.org. a4: Yes, cygwin works on 9x platforms. And there is (will be, perhaps, I think there are currently a few issues with it) a version 8.0 for cygwin as well. //Magnus ________________________________ Fundamentally if the user wants to run my software then I want to get it running on their hardware. If after they have tried it ( and hopefully liked it) they want to use it as a business tool then I am in a position to HIGHLY recommend the necessary upgrades to hardware/OS etc that they may need. Firstly there are no complaints about postgres or the installer both work very well. q1: I would like an almost silent install and to that effect have located the following on the installer project site: msiexec /i postgresql-8.0-beta2-dev3.msi datadir="C:\ghum\data" LISTENPORT=5432 INITDBOK=1 DOSERVICE=1 DOINITDB=1 SERVICEID="pgsql-80-beta-2" SERVICENAME="PostgreSQL Database Server 8.0 beta 2" SERVICEACCOUNT="postgres" SERVICEPASSWORD="PasswordUserPostgres" SERVICEPASSWORDV="PasswordUserPostgres" LOCALE="german" ENCODING="LATIN1" SUPERUSER="postgres" SUPERPASSWORD="leberwurst" SUPERPASSWORDV="leberwurst" I would like the installer to show a "You are installing PostgreSQL V 8 " banner with a pointer to the postgresql.org website but still bypass the normal installation questions.. q2: Is the above command in a format that is going to be supported in later versions? q3: Fat32 limitation. I have no evidence of the number of machines using FAT32 with W2000 / XP but I expect it will be significant. What I think I will have to do is put up a web page explaining the issues unless such a page already exists with the postgres documentation? q4: another option may be the cywin + postgres project. Does this let users access older operating systems W98 / Millenium edition? If so then is there a package my installer program can run? ie check OS/environment if ok run pg v8 else give warning / option and install cygwin+postgres. I don't mind if the install for W98 /fat32 is an older version of postgres. Indeed an older version would be helpful in emhasising the need to upgrade. I suppose posgresql is not "normally" a enduser software product. It has been designed as an industrial strength RDBMS for installation by professionals. In that environment it excells. I will lookforward to hearing how others are tackling the "embedded install". best regards Richard Sydney-Smith ^ permalink raw reply [nested|flat] 2+ messages in thread
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