Re: postgressqlnot support inwindows 2000

From: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: "Magnus Hagander" <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: "siva prakash" <sivaa_eng(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)in>, "'PostgreSQL'" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: postgressqlnot support inwindows 2000
Date: 2007-06-30 15:14:05
Message-ID: 200706301614050000@636527169
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> ------- Original Message -------
> From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
> To: siva prakash <sivaa_eng(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)in>, "'PostgreSQL'" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Sent: 30/06/07, 13:33:04
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] postgressqlnot support inwindows 2000
>
> siva prakash wrote:
> > if i run the setup choose language then go to next button it shows error
> > *"Failed to create process: 2!*
>
> Please don't remove the mailinglist from the CC list, so others can
> learn from the answers.
>
> The error you get indicates that your windows installation is broken. At
> that point it tries to execute "msiexec" which is a part of windows
> installer and a core piece of windows that's not working. You need to
> make sure that it works properly before you can install PostgreSQL.

Unless I'm misreading it errors when the Next Button is clicked on the language dialog, which means msiexec has already run once.

Siva; did you extract both msi files from the zip file before running the installer?

Regards, Dave

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