Re: 8.1.5 installation problem with initdb on WinXP Home

Someone posted a solution to this in the last couple of days on this
list. Have a good look...
Cheers
Antoine

On 30/11/06, adurrant@cogeco.ca <adurrant@cogeco.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I apologize for being yet another noob posting about this problem.  I have spent 2 days searching the archives and
the
> net for a solution to no avail.  Hence my post here.
>
> The problem I am having is on install of 8.1.5 it fails at the initdb call.  In checking the log, it seems to fail
when
> it creates the first data directory.  It gets past the setting file permissions, but when it tries to create
data/global
> it spits out an error message saying that "C:\Program Files" cannot be created.  File exists.  (Please excuse the
> fragmented message, I'm going off memory here).  Of course at this point it rolls back the install.
>
> Does anyone have a solution to this problem?  I would truly appreciate any help.
>
> Thanks.
> Alex.
>
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