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[Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>]

2010/2/18 Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>

> Hi Lars,
> Right now, there are two versions. The IZPack installer uses the
> native windows MSI. The user has to install this by themselves.
> The MSI handles the creation of the Postgres user, and the
> installation of the service. This should really be done as a silent
> install, but I did not figure out how to do this quite yet.
>
> I started as well on the BitRock variant, which is also in that
> branch. It will install the H2 DB by default. Knut has provided a lot
> of examples of BitRock installers using Postgres, but I have not
> looked at them yet.
>
> Ideally, we should just have a single installer, and BitRock
> (especially since we got the license from them) seems to be great. I
> have not really figured out yet though how to get it to install
> Postgres, but I am sure it is possible.
>
> Basically, we need create a BitRock installer that installs postgres.
> A batch file could then be used to load a sample DB. Knut has already
> done this in some of the older installers he created, so it should be
> pretty simple. I suppose this could also be done with IZpack, in a
> similar manner. The problem is that we need to be able to control the
> postgres user name and password, in order to populate the DB with the
> sample database.
>
> As for the BitRock installer, we can simple package the sample DB
> along with the installer, and ask the user if they want to install it
> or not. If they do, it will get copied to the /database folder,
> otherwise, we will leave it empty.
>
> Regards,
> jason
>
>
>
Tutorial for silent install of postgres windows installer:

http://pginstaller.projects.postgresql.org/silent.html

<http://pginstaller.projects.postgresql.org/silent.html>I am not sure if
this is possible but could we do this similar to how we "install" H2? Set it
up, include a database, compress it and when installing, simply decompress
it?