Re: Standalone Postgres

You might check out Knoppix. If your app will run on Linux you could create
a full bootable Knoppix CD with everything installed - then they can play
around all they want and just reboot to reset everything. I am not sure if
there is a Knoppix distro that can run within Windows.

I do video demos. I know that doesn't allow the user to play but you can
really show off the tool in a controlled manner. Check Instant Demo at
http://www.instant-demo.com/ - I bought it recently and love it. It even
makes Flash versions so you can put them up on your web site.

-Aaron

On 6/7/06, Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 03:01, Andy Shellam wrote:
>
>
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > Is it possible to have a CD with database and postgres binaries
> > > (win32), which can be directly run (without any installation) ? Or if
> it
> > > is impossible to be run from read-only media, to have it as
> > > self-extracting archive, which can be run from any user account ?
> > > The goal is to have some demonstration CD with some viewer, database
> and
> > > postgres engine, which can be easily run by any windows user without
> > > installation.
> > >
> > > best regards
> > > Jarek
> > >
> > You won't be able to run it all off CD no, as Postgres requires
> > log/transaction files etc to be written to. It also requires a service
> > user/data directory so it would have to be installed.
> >
> > If you don't require the functionality etc of Postgres (and haven't
> > developed your solution yet) you might be better off looking at
> something
> > like SQLlite, which uses flat-files.
>
> Actually there is a live pg cd distro out there somewhere. I've got a
> copy of it I can reseed the torrent if anyone wants it.
>
> I'm sure it's a bit out of date by now, but it's a pretty cool little
> trick.