It is risky to trust users to follow instructions, but it is even more stupid to make assumptions about their existing systems. Many will enjoy a system that is a no-brainer to install, but some might have knowledgeable IT staff and actually use Firebird with other systems. Silently uninstalling/reinstalling Firebird, may have serious side effects (like making other systems fail because they are developed for other Firebird versions, deleting users and resetting the sysdba password).

So be a bit careful before you just install,
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That previous thread caused me to read the documentation in the Doc sub-folder, as well as that section of Helen's book. It looks as if I can use command-line arguments to cause the install to be Classic without needing to trust the user to follow instructions (we all know how risky that can be). Unfortunately, I'm still a little in the dark about how the various command-line arguments affect the user interface. It may be that I'll need to experiment with them to actually see what my users will see. At the moment I can't get beyond the message that there is a server already running, etc. I should be able to fix that by stopping the server, or uninstalling it before reinstalling (not sure which just yet).