Thread: Re: How to install on Windows?
>hello > >is there a human readable tutorial on how to install postgresql on windows >platforms? i have no clue what cygwin is, but when i download it, it >downloads a bunch of other stuff on my machine! how do i know what i have to >choose in order to be able to install postgresql later? > >thanks/erick I currently trying to get it running on a nt box. So far I've downloaded the postgress tar.gz file at ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/pub/unix/db/postgresql/binary/v7.0/NT/ and when trying to run postgres a complaint of a missing cywin1.dll occured. the dll can be found in the cygwin-1.3.1-1.tar.gz package on http://programming.ccp14.ac.uk/ftp-mirror/programming/cygwin/pub/cygwin/late st/cygwin/ or some other mirror site Now I've got complaints about databases which don't exist. So far that's all what I needed of cygwin hth
People, saying that it is easy to install Pg on NT using Cygwin environment does not assume that *using* Pg on win32 can be done the way a MS product is -- that is, clicking on an icon and playing with the toy without never ever reading any doc. You must initb, then create your databases, etc. Do RTFM ! WT Medewerker wrote: > > >hello > > > >is there a human readable tutorial on how to install postgresql on windows > >platforms? i have no clue what cygwin is, but when i download it, it > >downloads a bunch of other stuff on my machine! how do i know what i have > to > >choose in order to be able to install postgresql later? > > > >thanks/erick > > I currently trying to get it running on a nt box. > So far I've downloaded the postgress tar.gz file at > ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/pub/unix/db/postgresql/binary/v7.0/NT/ > and when trying to run postgres a complaint of a missing > cywin1.dll occured. > > the dll can be found in the cygwin-1.3.1-1.tar.gz package on > http://programming.ccp14.ac.uk/ftp-mirror/programming/cygwin/pub/cygwin/late > st/cygwin/ > or some other mirror site > > Now I've got complaints about databases which don't exist. > So far that's all what I needed of cygwin > > hth > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? > > http://www.postgresql.org/search.mpl -- PLEASE, before sending me any email attachment, check the http://www.gesnet.net/humour/ -- Every stuff I've received is there. Don't send me images other than in JPG format. Send no AVI, no EXE. Zip what should be zipped; always prefer links to attachments.
hi fabrice, thanks for taking the time to write that. i have indeed read the manual (however thin it is), and i have seen several postgresql sites, searched on google/av/fast - but there is *nothing* that tells me what to do with the cygwin thingie. i am sorry for being a newbie, but i would appreciate if you could tell me what is "initb"? alternatively, i would appreciate if you could tell me where i can find a manual that i can RTFM. thanks! (or is it that i need to read 5000 websites just to find out that the cygwin setup asks me even more questions that have no help?) i apologise for being stupid, but i have done my homework and am posting here after doing all that. actually, i see the lack of an installable to be an opportunity rather than a problem, and i would love to make a simple installable for folks like me, but i need to understand how to get this thing working on my own computer first! thanks a lot/erick "Fabrice Scemama" <fabrice@scemama.org> wrote in message news:3AF33813.3FFFA3@scemama.org... > People, saying that it is easy to install Pg on NT > using Cygwin environment does not assume that *using* > Pg on win32 can be done the way a MS product is > -- that is, clicking on an icon and playing with the > toy without never ever reading any doc. > > You must initb, then create your databases, etc. Do RTFM ! --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.250 / Virus Database: 123 - Release Date: 19-Apr-01
hi, i am not sure if that helps, but thanks for responding! did u successfully install the database? does it work on your windows machine? i am not sure i understood your response, but i would love to know what you did - more specifically, exactly which files you downloaded? thanks a lot/erick --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.250 / Virus Database: 123 - Release Date: 18-Apr-01