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Flash Drive

Flash Drive
Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:56:39 -080
Is there any way to install Interbase Server and Client on
a USB flash drive (not the boot drive), and run it from there?
The reason I am asking is that it would be nice to run an app
from the flash drive, with minimal intrusion on the host computer.

Thanks for any insight!

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Re: Flash Drive
27 Nov 2006 15:55:01 -0700
Ken Pfeiffer wrote:

>Is there any way to install Interbase Server and Client on
>a USB flash drive (not the boot drive), and run it from there?
>The reason I am asking is that it would be nice to run an app
>from the flash drive, with minimal intrusion on the host computer.
>
>Thanks for any insight!

Putting the database on a flash drive is no problem. Putting IB on a flash 
drive is a problem because InterBase expects to find entries in the 
registry that identify the location of the IB  root directory, among other 
things. You could create the registry entries but there is no guarantee 
that the flash drive will be assigned the same drive letter each time it 
is plugged in.

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