Greetings from a newbie.

I just downloaded PosgreSql for the first time, pending a possible job
interview. Because I wanted the most trouble-free install (Hey, even a
grizzled veteran would prefer that! ;-) I downloaded pgplus-833-2-
win.zip and uncompressed it. OK, so it's not a self-extracting .exe
but that's a minor obstacle. After all, there is a setup.bat file.

OK, the setup.bat has two commands:

1. vcredist_x86.exe /q:a /c:/"msiexec /i/vcredist.msi /qb!"
2. msiexec /i postgres-plus-8.3.msi

Command [1] I had comment out because (according the the preceding
echo) it will install VC++ 2005 runtime; I have already installed the
2008 version.

Command[2] is giving me a hard time.
Here's my little story: Due to some installation quirk (with which
Dell techies were unable to help me) My XP installed as drive F:
rather than on drive C:.

When I try to run the latter msiexec command, it starts OK, even
prompting my for the language. Then I get an error box with the
message:

[ Invalid Drive c:\ ]

This probably means that the .msi file has the drive c: hard-coded in
there someplace, rather than an environment variable like %windir% to
figure out the system drive letter to install. Most software I
install has no such presumptions but I don't know if it internally
used msiexec.

Question 1:
Does the installation need the c: drive for temporary storage or as
its installation target? If it is temporary, I can simply use the
subst command to create a fake drive c: on a directory and delete it
when the installation is complete. I do *not* want a permanently
mounted fake c: drive; it would confuse other installations.

Question 2:
On the possibility that the c: is not actually hard-coded: Is there
an environment variable (like INSTALL_DRIVE=F to tell the
installation process which drive letter to to target for its temp and
installation files?

Question 3:
I didn't see this in the msiexec /help output: Is there an option to
msiexec to direct it on which drive to use, rather than some possible
default c:

WOW! Such a mouthful for a newbie!

Thanks much for help here.

-- J

Beau Nanaz <spamntrapf (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

First of all, I'd like to direct you to the web site for the Windows
Installer: http://pginstaller.projects.postgresql.org/

There is a link to silent installation options.
Also, if you need further assistance, there is a link to the
mailing list and the bug tracker where people can answer your questions
competently (which I cannot really do).

Not sure about these, the documentation has parameters
BASEDIR and DATADIR with which you should be able to configure the
destination. But I don't know if that will fix your problem.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

Beau Nanaz <spamntrapf (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

First of all, I'd like to direct you to the web site for the Windows
Installer: http://pginstaller.projects.postgresql.org/

There is a link to silent installation options.
Also, if you need further assistance, there is a link to the
mailing list and the bug tracker where people can answer your questions
competently (which I cannot really do).

Not sure about these, the documentation has parameters
BASEDIR and DATADIR with which you should be able to configure the
destination. But I don't know if that will fix your problem.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

Beau Nanaz <spamntrapf (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

First of all, I'd like to direct you to the web site for the Windows
Installer: http://pginstaller.projects.postgresql.org/

There is a link to silent installation options.
Also, if you need further assistance, there is a link to the
mailing list and the bug tracker where people can answer your questions
competently (which I cannot really do).

Not sure about these, the documentation has parameters
BASEDIR and DATADIR with which you should be able to configure the
destination. But I don't know if that will fix your problem.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

Beau Nanaz <spamntrapf (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

First of all, I'd like to direct you to the web site for the Windows
Installer: http://pginstaller.projects.postgresql.org/

There is a link to silent installation options.
Also, if you need further assistance, there is a link to the
mailing list and the bug tracker where people can answer your questions
competently (which I cannot really do).

Not sure about these, the documentation has parameters
BASEDIR and DATADIR with which you should be able to configure the
destination. But I don't know if that will fix your problem.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

Beau Nanaz <spamntrapf (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

First of all, I'd like to direct you to the web site for the Windows
Installer: http://pginstaller.projects.postgresql.org/

There is a link to silent installation options.
Also, if you need further assistance, there is a link to the
mailing list and the bug tracker where people can answer your questions
competently (which I cannot really do).

Not sure about these, the documentation has parameters
BASEDIR and DATADIR with which you should be able to configure the
destination. But I don't know if that will fix your problem.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

Beau Nanaz <spamntrapf (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

First of all, I'd like to direct you to the web site for the Windows
Installer: http://pginstaller.projects.postgresql.org/

There is a link to silent installation options.
Also, if you need further assistance, there is a link to the
mailing list and the bug tracker where people can answer your questions
competently (which I cannot really do).

Not sure about these, the documentation has parameters
BASEDIR and DATADIR with which you should be able to configure the
destination. But I don't know if that will fix your problem.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

Beau Nanaz <spamntrapf (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

First of all, I'd like to direct you to the web site for the Windows
Installer: http://pginstaller.projects.postgresql.org/

There is a link to silent installation options.
Also, if you need further assistance, there is a link to the
mailing list and the bug tracker where people can answer your questions
competently (which I cannot really do).

Not sure about these, the documentation has parameters
BASEDIR and DATADIR with which you should be able to configure the
destination. But I don't know if that will fix your problem.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

Beau Nanaz <spamntrapf (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

First of all, I'd like to direct you to the web site for the Windows
Installer: http://pginstaller.projects.postgresql.org/

There is a link to silent installation options.
Also, if you need further assistance, there is a link to the
mailing list and the bug tracker where people can answer your questions
competently (which I cannot really do).

Not sure about these, the documentation has parameters
BASEDIR and DATADIR with which you should be able to configure the
destination. But I don't know if that will fix your problem.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe