Re: [GENERAL] ntfs for windows port rc5-2

2005-01-17 Thread Magnus Hagander
> > chose no at that point, and it installs, then errors and completely > > un-installs. > > leaving a dir struct under program files with a single file: > > pgperm.log > > under the directory with the msi files in it there is a > full install > > log, which the list has twice refused to accep

Re: [GENERAL] ntfs for windows port rc5-2

2005-01-17 Thread Magnus Hagander
> >>Log in the temp install dir: > >>The Cacls command can be run only on disk drives that use the NTFS > >>file system > >> > >>I'll have to rip half or more of the full log as it seems to be to > >>large for the list to accept > > > > > > I assume you are talking about the initdb.log file? Th

Re: [GENERAL] ntfs for windows port rc5-2

2005-01-16 Thread J. Greenlees
Magnus Hagander wrote: rc5-2 msi will not install at all on a fat32 filesystem even without initialising the database. Really? The code for checking the filesystem type is only executed if you chose to initdb, so I really don't see this happening. Exactly what message do you get? Log in the temp

Re: [GENERAL] ntfs for windows port rc5-2

2005-01-16 Thread Magnus Hagander
>>>rc5-2 msi will not install at all on a fat32 filesystem >>>even without initialising the database. >> >> >> Really? The code for checking the filesystem type is only executed if >> you chose to initdb, so I really don't see this happening. >Exactly what >> message do you get? >> >Log in the

Re: [GENERAL] ntfs for windows port rc5-2

2005-01-16 Thread J. Greenlees
Magnus Hagander wrote: rc5-2 msi will not install at all on a fat32 filesystem even without initialising the database. Really? The code for checking the filesystem type is only executed if you chose to initdb, so I really don't see this happening. Exactly what message do you get? Log in the temp i

Re: [GENERAL] ntfs for windows port rc5-2

2005-01-15 Thread Magnus Hagander
>rc5-2 msi will not install at all on a fat32 filesystem >even without initialising the database. Really? The code for checking the filesystem type is only executed if you chose to initdb, so I really don't see this happening. Exactly what message do you get? >sorry but whole purpose of putting i

Re: [GENERAL] ntfs for windows port rc5-2

2005-01-14 Thread Aly Dharshi
I don't think that Windows isn't worth using some versions such as XP are quite stable for most purposes. By no means am I saying go put a production database server like Postgres or Oracle on it. SMB's (Small - to - Medium Businesses) may benefit from Windows 2000 if there aren't able to get so

Re: [GENERAL] ntfs for windows port rc5-2

2005-01-14 Thread J. Greenlees
Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You may wish to consider a different database for your project. SQLite may be a better choice, for example, depending on the project's specific needs (www.sqlite.org). Win95/98/ME is poor technology, no matter how many user

Re: [GENERAL] ntfs for windows port rc5-2

2005-01-14 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You may wish to consider a different database for your project. SQLite may be a better choice, for example, depending on the project's specific needs (www.sqlite.org). Win95/98/ME is poor technology, no matter how many users it still has. It's prob

Re: [GENERAL] ntfs for windows port rc5-2

2005-01-14 Thread J. Greenlees
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 08:39:28AM -0800, J. Greenlees wrote: why? since an app that I'm working on would be useless for 60% of potential clients, using posgresql with the requirement for ms' corrupted ntfs means postgresql isn't going to work for it. I think what y

Re: [GENERAL] ntfs for windows port rc5-2

2005-01-14 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 08:39:28AM -0800, J. Greenlees wrote: > why? > since an app that I'm working on would be useless for 60% of potential > clients, using posgresql with the requirement for ms' corrupted ntfs > means postgresql isn't going to work for it. I think what you are referring to is

[GENERAL] ntfs for windows port rc5-2

2005-01-14 Thread J. Greenlees
why? since an app that I'm working on would be useless for 60% of potential clients, using posgresql with the requirement for ms' corrupted ntfs means postgresql isn't going to work for it. since ms does not include a compiler, and the source for 8.0 won't cross compile from linux. ( gcc 3.3.0