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From: gotnidea! Business Development Centre <gotnidea@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 25, 2006 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Installation problem
To: Moritz Lennert <mlennert@club.worldonline.be>
Thanks Moritz,
I could partially solve my problem with your help. I changed the c: option to d:.
But now, as you say, I can install GRASS on my C: with FAT32 structure, I am more interested in doing so. Earlier I had read at many places that GRASS could only work with NTFS.
Now to be precise, my problem with installation on C: (FAT32) starts while I install postgresql-8.1.4-1 and try to initialise database structure. I get data directory error telling me that data directory should be on NTFS formatted volume. It clearly mentions:
‘If you wish to install the data directory on another type of partition (which is not recommended, and is unsupported) you must initialise the database cluster manually by running initdb.exe.’
How can I do so? And how it is done. Would it affect the functioning of GRASS on FAT32?
regards,
Abhinav
On 10/25/06, Moritz Lennert <mlennert@club.worldonline.be > wrote:
gotnidea! Business Development Centre wrote:
I have been trying to install GRASS on my Windows XP Service Pack 2
laptop with 2 partitions. I am trying to install it on drive it on D
drive which is NTFS.
The installation process goes on smoothly, till I run the inst_grass
batch file. It gives message that I need to install MinGW first. But I
have already done so. Don’t know what is the problem. Can anyone please
guide me?
Where did you install MinGW and Msys ?
In inst_grass the path is hardcoded:
if not exist c:\mingw goto no_mingw
if not exist c:\msys goto no_msys
so if you installed it on d, inst_grass won’t find it.
The quick fix: change all references to c:\mingw and c:\msys in
inst_grass.bat to the path where you installed them.
But I think that this should probably be handled by a variable at the
top of the script which the user would just have to set once. I agree
that there is no reason that one should be obliged to use c.
Earlier I installed GRASS on my C drive, but couldn’t load any data.
Since it was FAT32 drive, I thought of working on my D drive. Both
drives have separate Windows XP SP2 installed. How can I install the
GRASS on FAT32 drive?
Please be more precise about this problem. I think that fat32 should
work without any problems. What do you mean by “couldn’t load any data”.
Moritz