Re: [stellation-res] Firebird installation on Windows

["Jonathan Gossage" <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You found the right stuff. Would you believe I was transcribing directly
from the website page and could not type. Glad that they have the installer
with RC1 now. This is new.

Regards

Jonathan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Wright - IBM Research" <jwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <stellation-res@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: [stellation-res] Firebird installation on Windows


> Thanks, Jonathan.
>
> I'm working on it now, and noticed a couple of things.
>
> First,  I found a self-installing version:
> Firebird-1.5.0.3233_RC1_win32_setup.exe
> The install went fine, so perhaps it's not necessary to install 1.0.2
first.
>
> Second - I couldn't find "Firebird-jca-driver 1.0.0-RC3" as such.
> However, I did find "firebird-jca-jdbc-driver",
> filename  FirebirdSQL-1.0.0RC3.zip.
> I assume this is what you meant.
>
> I''ll keep you posted ---
>
> Jim
>
> At 06:57 PM 4/21/2003, Jonathan Gossage wrote:
> >First I recommend that you install Firebird 1.5 RC1. This is what I did
my
> >testing on and I had absolutely no problems with it. There is only one
> >installation catch. The 1.5 download is not a full installation but an
> >upgrade. This means that you will need to first install Firebird 1.02
which
> >is a complete installation.
> >
> >You will also need to get the JDBC-JCA driver aka Jaybird. You can find
all
> >these files at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=9028.
> >The specific items you want are, in order on the download page:
> >
> >Firebird-jca-driver 1.0.0-RC3
> >firebird-win32 1.5.0.3233-RC1
> >firebird-win32 1.0.2-Release
> >
> >You should download the documentation. You will need the complete
Interbase
> >documentation for InterBase 6.0
> >This can be accessed from the following link:
> >http://firebird.sourceforge.net/index.php?op=doc&id=userdoc
> >
> >The base download includes a set of command line administration tools.
There
> >are also a number of third party GUI based admin tools, both open source
and
> >commercial. The one I use is called IbAccess and is available from
> >http://www.ibaccess.org
> >
> >Setup is quite simple. First install Firebird 1.0.2 by double-clicking
the
> >downloaded executable and following the on-screen instructions. Once this
is
> >done, you can immediately upgrade to 1.5 by unzipping the 1.5 zip file on
> >top of the installed files. Just make sure you manually stop the Firebird
> >service first.\
> >
> >Then unzip the JDBC driver. There are several Jar files that you will
need
> >to make available to Stellation in the same way as the Postgres Jar.
> >Specifically, you will need firebirdjmx.jar, firebirdsql.jar,
> >mini-concurrent.jar, and mini-j2ee.jar.
> >
> >Once everything is installed, use either command line tools or ibaccess
to
> >add whatever users you need. You get the master user called sysdba with a
> >password of masterkey for free as part of the installation. Then create
the
> >Stellation database, either with ibaccess or using the technique used in
the
> >merge tests build.xml. Once this is done you are ready to go.
> >
> >All of this is from memory so I hope there are no omissions.
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >Jonathan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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