Re: [WIN32] Quiet install and changing defaults

[Chris Gow <cgow(at)digitalfairway(dot)com>]

Magnus Hagander wrote:

I am attempting to override the default installation 
directory that the postgres MSI uses. I'm not familiar with 
MSI, but from what I've read I can specify properties on the 
command line to change properties in the installer? I've 
tried a variety of properties from looking at the 
installation log and by examining the properties using the 
ORCA tool from Microsoft. All to no avail:

msiexec /i postgresql-8.1.msi SOURCEDIR=[my directory] 
msiexec /i postgresql-8.1.msi TARGETDIR=[my directory] 
msiexec /i postgresql-8.1.msi DEVDIR=[my directory]

In all cases the installer still presents me with the default 
directory (c:\Program Files\Postgres8.1) and not the one I 
specify on the command line. Should some combination of the 
above work?

My final goal is to be able to spawn the pgsql installer from 
my installer and override defaults for the user and password 
and installation directory. Is this feasible?

Hopefully this is the right list, if not if someone could 
direct me to the correct one, I'd appreciate it.
    

This is documented on
http://pginstaller.projects.postgresql.org/silent.html. THe property
you're looking for is BASEDIR. You'll also need to send it to
postgresql-8.1-int.msi - this is also documented on the page above.

//Magnus

  

Excellent!

Thanks for the info!

-- chris