General Installation Parameters
General installation parameters apply to all instances.
The general installation parameters are as follows (environment variables are shown in parentheses):
Instance ID (II_INSTALLATION)
Identifies the instance, and is part of the instance name.
Installation location (II_SYSTEM)
Defines location of the product’s system (executable) files.
Instance Owner (II_USERID) (Linux and UNIX only)
Defines the user ID of the system administrator that owns the Ingres instance. The ID is added to the system if it does not exist.
Group ID (II_GROUPID) (Linux and UNIX only)
Defines the group ID to which the system administrator user ID belongs and that owns the Ingres instance. The ID is added to the system if it does not exist.
Silent install process (II_SILENT_INSTALL) (Linux only)
Quiets installation messages except those from RPM.
Start instance with OS (II_START_ON_BOOT) (Linux only)
Controls whether the instance will be started automatically when the operating system boots.
Start Ingres Automatically at System Startup (II_SERVICE_START_AUTO) (Windows only)
Controls whether the instance will be started automatically when the operating system boots.
Start Ingres under....account (II_SERVICE_START_USER) (Windows only)
Specifies the user ID that starts Ingres as a service.