At 13:46 Saturday, 21.02.2004 +1000, you wrote:

>Is there a way to install Firebird 1.5 guaranteeing that it will run
>independently of a standard installation (and run concurrently) ? For
>example renaming the services and changing the ports to run on. I would
>need this to happen on Linux and Windows. Could anyone tell me how I
>would go about doing this?
>
>Any advice would be appreciated.

Get the latest release notes from here
http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&s=1077338580:19681&page=ibp_download_15
and read them, especially the section "Configuring the port service on
client and server" and the relevant parts of "New Configuration File –
firebird.conf" and its subsection "Using the connection string".

HTH,
Markus