RE: any tutor/samples for installing/starting/programming onNT ?

This is crazy stuff (but i really appreciate your effort in assembling this
information).

I made it much farther now. At step 10 In the instructions for installing
PostgreSQL 7.0 when i try

./configure

i get:

>./configure
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

yet, it's obviously there and even seems executable

>ls -la
total 186
drwxr-xr-x 16 zorba None 0 Jun 5 14:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 zorba None 0 Jun 5 14:15 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 zorba None 119 Jul 29 1999 DEVELOPERS
-rw-r--r-- 1 zorba None 3068 Feb 28 18:28 GNUmakefile.in
-rw-r--r-- 1 zorba None 815 Aug 22 1997 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 zorba None 9178 May 22 22:12 Makefile.global.in
-rw-r--r-- 1 zorba None 9353 May 16 16:48 Makefile.shlib
drwxr-xr-x 21 zorba None 0 Jun 8 03:38 backend
drwxr-xr-x 15 zorba None 0 Jun 1 08:05 bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 zorba None 33105 Mar 29 11:12 config.guess
-rwxr-xr-x 1 zorba None 25171 Mar 29 11:12 config.sub
-rwxr-xr-x 1 zorba None 238267 May 24 18:43 configure
-rw-r--r-- 1 zorba None 39429 May 24 18:43 configure.in
drwxr-xr-x 2 zorba None 0 Jun 1 08:05 corba
drwxr-xr-x 2 zorba None 0 Jun 1 08:05 data
drwxr-xr-x 19 zorba None 0 Jun 5 14:16 include
-rwxr-xr-x 1 zorba None 5585 Feb 4 1997 install-sh
drwxr-xr-x 12 zorba None 0 Jun 1 08:05 interfaces
drwxr-xr-x 2 zorba None 0 Jun 1 08:05 makefiles
-rwxr-xr-x 1 zorba None 730 Jan 20 16:50 mkinstalldirs
drwxr-xr-x 5 zorba None 0 Jun 1 08:06 pl
drwxr-xr-x 2 zorba None 0 Jun 1 08:06 template
drwxr-xr-x 9 zorba None 0 Jun 1 08:06 test
drwxr-xr-x 8 zorba None 0 Jun 1 08:06 tools
drwxr-xr-x 2 zorba None 0 Jun 1 08:06 tutorial
drwxr-xr-x 2 zorba None 0 Jun 1 08:06 utils
drwxr-xr-x 2 zorba None 0 Jun 1 08:06 win32
-rw-r--r-- 1 zorba None 744 Jan 18 14:05 win32.mak
>

any suggestions?

tmia,
~c

Kevin wrote:
~
~ Charlie Derr wrote:
~
~ > Kevin,
~ > I was thrilled to see your page, as I had previously
~ tried unsuccessfully
~ > to build postgreSQL on NT. However, when i try to follow your
~ instructions,
~ > I get an error at the third step:
~ >
~ > >mount c:/Unix/Root /
~ > mount failed: Device or resource busy
~ >
~ > I was careful not to have any other windows open when i tried this.
~ >
~ > any clues?
~
~ Logout the Cygwin, then login. Run ``mount'' you should see that
~ mounted. If not, try ``mount -f c:/Unix/Root /''.
~
~ > tmia,
~ > ~c
~
~ - Kevin
~