Re: Installing postgres on win XP

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tue 8/9/2005 6:27 PM
To: Dave Page
Cc: Anup Bordia; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Installing postgres on win XP
=20
>> Are you running straight from Winzip? If so, extract the files to disk
>> first, then run it.
>
> Does anyone know why it can't install without being unzipped,=20

Because when you double click on the file in Winzip, it seems to do strange=
 things with what it extracts - specifically, I don't think it extracts the=
 rest of the files in the archive like it seems to for some installers, per=
haps because it doesn't recognise msi files and treat them like it might fo=
r 'setup.exe' files. In our case, it doesn't find the main installer databa=
se, so it bootstraps and gets the language, then fails when it trys to go a=
ny further.

> and can
> that be fixed?

Extract first, then run. Or get Winzip fixed.

Regards, Dave

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