[postgis-users] Use of Postgis/postgresql without, installation?

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi David and others,

> Do U mean  that U want to do a CD or DVD Linux Bootable???


no, I don't want to boot from the CD/DVD, but use postgis within the 
currently running operating system (Linux, Windows, MacOSX) with a 
graphical client application and postgis in the backend, without having 
the user to first install Postgresql. The idea is to start postgresql 
with a batch file or shell script and then start the graphical client 
applicatoin that can query the read-only postgis installed on the CD/DVD.

I'll have a look into DWebPro, which seems to be an interesting approach 
for the Windows platform. Guillaume, do I understand correctly, that all 
the software (Apache, Postgresql/postgis) etc. would run directly off 
the read only media without installation, but the data-directory would 
need to be copied to a read/write harddisk?

I'll also have a look into the suggestions by Fenoy.

Thanks all for the feedback,
will keep you informed if I have any progress. It won't be soon, since 
it is a low priority project, though.

Andreas

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