On Monday 08 December 2014 15:43:30 Werner wrote: > On 12/8/2014 9:28, Paul Reeves wrote: > > On Monday 08 December 2014 09:04:16 Werner wrote: > >> I would like to start testing FB 3. > >> > >> Does the installer allow installation side by side with FB 2.5? > > > > Not really. The installer has never been designed to support anything > > more than simple use cases. > > > > You can run the installer but you will have to configure firebird 3 > > manually if you want to keep an existing firebird installation. > > Is there some doc/check list on what to do to ensure that I don't step > in any way onto my FB 2.5 install. > > IIRC there was something for 1.5 and 2.x but I can't find it. >
The installer will warn you if you try and install into an existing directory. And it will also warn you that because it has found an existing version of firebird installed, it will not configure the new version to run. You will have to do everything manually: o type instsvc.exe at a command prompt to see how to configure fb to run under a different service name o or run fb3 as an application with the -a switch (and don't forget the -m switch.) o check the section at the end of firebird.conf for the different ways of configuring the firebird server architecture o update the listening port to something other than 3050 o perhaps update the security db. (Lots of fun to be had there.) o Read the release notes carefully. That should get you up and testing. Paul -- Paul Reeves http://www.ibphoenix.com Supporting users of Firebird ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
