--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Dimitry Sibiryakov <sd@...>
wrote:

>
> > Thank you, but both options are not appropriate. We are not allowed to
> > touch existing firebird installations on customer pc's, so we can't
> > use them.
>
> "Touch FB installation" and "use FB installation" are two different
> things. Tell me, please, exactly what you cannot do?
>
> SY, SD.
>
> PS: If I were you, I would write down in system requirements "Firebird
> server version X.X or above" and let customer's sysadmin do his/her job.
>

Thank you again, but our main question is: what affect have already
existing registry entries or firebird variables to newly (additional)
installed fb versions?
(By the way: we can neither touch nor use existing installations.)