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Firebird Database Server 2.1
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This document is a guide to installing this package of
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Firebird 2.1 on the Win32 platform. These notes refer
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to the installation package itself, rather than
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Firebird 2.1 in general.
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It is assumed that readers of this document are already
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familiar Firebird 2.0. If you are evaluating Fb 2.1 as
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part of a migration from Fb 1.5 you are advised to
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review the Fb 2.0 documentation to understand the
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changes made between 1.5 and 2.0.
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Contents
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--------
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o Before installation
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o Known installation problems
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o Uninstallation
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o Other Notes
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o Installation from a batch file
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Before installation
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-------------------
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It is recommended that you UNINSTALL all previous
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versions of Firebird or InterBase before installing
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this package. It is especially important to verify that
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fbclient.dll and gds32.dll are removed from <system32>.
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Known installation problems
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o It is not (yet) possible to use the binary installer
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to install more than one instance of Firebird 2.1.
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o Unfortunately, (at the time of Beta 1) the installer
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cannot detect if other versions of Firebird are
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running.
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o There are known areas of overlap between the
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32-bit and 64-bit installs:
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- The Control Panel | Add or Remove Programs section
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does not indicate whether the installed version
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is 32-bit or 64-bit.
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- The service installer (instsvc) uses the same
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instance name.
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o The 64-bit install does not yet provide the 32-bit
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client libraries.
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These issues will be resolved in a subsequent beta
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release.
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Uninstallation
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--------------
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o It is preferred that this package be uninstalled
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correctly using the uninstallation application
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supplied. This can be called from the Control Panel.
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Alternatively it can be uninstalled by running
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unins000.exe directly from the installation
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directory.
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o If Firebird is running as an application (instead of
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as a service) it is recommended that you manually
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stop the server before running the uninstaller. This
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is because the uninstaller cannot stop a running
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application. If a server is running during the
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uninstall the uninstall will complete with errors.
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You will have to delete the remnants by hand.
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o Uninstallation leaves four files in the install
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directory:
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- aliases.conf
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- firebird.conf
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- firebird.log
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- security2.fdb
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This is intentional. These files are all
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potentially modifiable by users and may be required
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if Firebird is re-installed in the future. They can
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be deleted if no longer required.
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Other Notes
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Firebird requires WinSock2. All Win32 platforms
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should have this, except for Win95. A test for the
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Winsock2 library is made during install. If it is
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not found the install will fail. You can visit
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this link:
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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q177719
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to find out how to go about upgrading.
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Installation from a batch file
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The setup program can be run from a batch file.
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Please see this document:
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installation_scripted.txt
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for full details.
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