"Jeff Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> As I understand it, the z:\linuxaux directory would only be used if
> booted to the Linux Boot Disk (doable) during the 1st phase of the
> install BEFORE windows 2K/XP/2K3 is up and running.
I believe this is what she was asking about.
> I suppose if the aim is only to get the database information at this
> early stage and write everything to text files on the local machine,
> as we do now, then doing it this way would work. It seems to me that
> a more comprehensive solution would be to also get the DBI module to
> function within windows (harder?) so that no, or almost no,
> configuration information has to be written to flat files. That and
> application installation without a full re-install, think upgrades
> to applications or rollouts of new apps, becomes a lot easier
> as well.
All true, but that is a slightly different problem. :-)
Installing the DBI module on Windows should be easy; you just use
ActiveState's PPM tool:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActivePerl/PPM/
- Pat
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