Helen Borrie wrote:

>
>
> At 12:12 AM 21/04/2008, you wrote:
> >Lee Jenkins wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> is there a guide around which details setting up 1.5 and 2.x FB servers
> >> on the > same machine? I'm sure there's more to it than specifying
> different
> >> ports to run on.
>
> Yes. Study Chapter 9 of the 1.5 release notes.
>
> >>
> >> A couple of week ago, I tried running 2.1 as an application (while
> >> running my usual 1.5.x as a service), but couldn't seem to get it to
> start so I > figured I was doing something incorrect.
> >>
>
> Make sure you follow the instruction to de-assign the FIREBIRD variable.
>
> >Some more information:
> >
> >I'm running Vista Business 32 bit.
> >
> >This what I tried this morning:
> >
> >I have already 1.5.5.4926 and installed 2.1, got the warning about 1.5
> already
> >being installed, installed anyway.
>
> Your Subject says "Running 1.5 and 2.0 concurrently". So which
> combination are you actually trying to run?

Sorry, I mean to be able to have both live and run on the same machine.

> You used the exe installer? So did you take the default location for
> installing Firebird in Program Files? Vista is precious about ordinary
> users running applications from there. If you need to run Firebird as an
> application, it will have to be moved somewhere else...
>

I did install both using the binary installers which placed them in C:\program
files\firebird\firebird_*_*.

I'll uninstall FB 2.1 and install it manually outside of the c:\pf directory.

Thanks Helen,

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Warm Regards,

Lee

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