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

[strk at refractions.net]

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 05:36:57PM +0200, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> 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.

You surely can. An already set up pgsql/postgis and graphical client on
the CD/DVD and a launcher.

--strk;

> 
> 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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