Re: BUG #3981: Can not Install PostgreSQL - error at the end of installation

[Miroslav Nachev <miro(at)space-comm(dot)com>]

Is there any script for manually initializing or installing. Something 
like BAT file? If BAT file works this is better than GUI Setup which 
doesn't works.


Miro.

Matthias Mohr wrote:
> Hi Miroslav,
>
> > I try many times to install PostgreSQL 8.3 and older versions on my new
> > mobile computer Acer AS7720G-933G64Bn with installed Windows Vista 
> > Ultimate
> > OS. Unfortunately it is not possible. In the beginning I have one error.
> > After User Account Control (UAC) disabling the error is changed to 
> > "Failed to create temporary directory." 
> I also have this problem on one computer with Windows XP SP2.
> But only with 8.3; 8.2 installation works perfectly.
> I could not find any reason- the logfile does not tell what's really 
> going wrong...
> (and the only thing which the error dialog says was "an error occured" 
> - nothing else)
>
> I solved it by not initializing the database (I did it afterwards by 
> hand).
>
> Sorry, if this is not very helpful for you - but that was the only 
> thing I could do on that computer for running 8.3
>
> with regards,
> Matthias