Re: Installation woes

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

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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