Thread: Windows NT 4.0 installation.

Hello.

I am not in front of my NT 4.0 machine right now so I won't be able to
give any specifics messages or anything at this point. In any case, it
seems PostgreSQL can't be installed (via the Windows install package) on
Windows NT 4.0 machines, giving an error about missing functions or
something to that effect.

Do you guys have any ideas about this or suggestions for a workaround?

Thanks in advance.

-Bruno

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> Hello.
>
> I am not in front of my NT 4.0 machine right now so I won't
> be able to give any specifics messages or anything at this
> point. In any case, it seems PostgreSQL can't be installed
> (via the Windows install package) on Windows NT 4.0 machines,
> giving an error about missing functions or something to that effect.
>
> Do you guys have any ideas about this or suggestions for a workaround?
>
> Thanks in advance.

See the FAQ, question 1.2 for what is missing.

You can either build it from source, or you can install it on a
different machine and just copy over all files. Then you'll have to set
permissions on the files manually, as well as set up the service using
"pg_ctl register". (And run initdb, of course, which will require you to
log off and then in as the postgres service account as NT4 doesn't
support multiple console users)

//Magnus