<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">gotnidea! Business Development Centre</b> <<a href="mailto:gotnidea@gmail.com">gotnidea@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Oct 25, 2006 6:57 PM<br>Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Installation problem<br>To: Moritz Lennert <<a href="mailto:mlennert@club.worldonline.be">mlennert@club.worldonline.be</a>><br><br></span>
<div>Thanks Moritz,</div>
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<div>I could partially solve my problem with your help. I changed the c: option to d:.</div>
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<div>But now, as you say, I can install GRASS on my C: with FAT32 structure, I am more interested in doing so. Earlier I had read at many places that GRASS could only work with NTFS.</div>
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<div>Now to be precise, my problem with installation on C: (FAT32) starts while I install postgresql-8.1.4-1 and try to initialise database structure. I get data directory error telling me that data directory should be on NTFS formatted volume. It clearly mentions:
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<div>'If you wish to install the data directory on another type of partition (which is not recommended, and is unsupported) you must initialise the database cluster manually by running initdb.exe.'</div>
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<div>How can I do so? And how it is done. Would it affect the functioning of GRASS on FAT32?</div>
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<div>regards,</div>
<div>Abhinav<br><br> </div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/25/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Moritz Lennert</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:mlennert@club.worldonline.be" target="_blank">mlennert@club.worldonline.be
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">gotnidea! Business Development Centre wrote:<br>> I have been trying to install GRASS on my Windows XP Service Pack 2
<br>> laptop with 2 partitions. I am trying to install it on drive it on D<br>> drive which is NTFS.<br>><br>> The installation process goes on smoothly, till I run the inst_grass<br>> batch file. It gives message that I need to install MinGW first. But I
<br>> have already done so. Don't know what is the problem. Can anyone please<br>> guide me?<br><br>Where did you install MinGW and Msys ?<br><br>In inst_grass the path is hardcoded:<br><br>if not exist c:\mingw goto no_mingw
<br>if not exist c:\msys goto no_msys<br><br>so if you installed it on d, inst_grass won't find it.<br><br>The quick fix: change all references to c:\mingw and c:\msys in<br>inst_grass.bat to the path where you installed them.
<br><br>But I think that this should probably be handled by a variable at the<br>top of the script which the user would just have to set once. I agree<br>that there is no reason that one should be obliged to use c.<br><br>
><br>> Earlier I installed GRASS on my C drive, but couldn't load any data.<br>> Since it was FAT32 drive, I thought of working on my D drive. Both<br>> drives have separate Windows XP SP2 installed. How can I install the
<br>> GRASS on FAT32 drive?<br><br><br>Please be more precise about this problem. I think that fat32 should<br>work without any problems. What do you mean by "couldn't load any data".<br><br>Moritz<br></blockquote>
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