Deploying Pre-configured Demo on WinXP MediaCentre

[Heeney.CS]

I installed the pentaho-demo.zip package on my WinXP Media Centre computer at home and all went well except that I did not see the same webpage as documented on Page 9 of the PentahoQuickstart_0.9.7.2.pdf document.

I am missing the header starting with "Pentaho BI Components Demo" as well as the link to the Portal Demo.

I think I may just be using an older version. Did I install the wrong package? What do you suggest?

Thanks,

Chris

[dmoran]

It sounds like you are running an older version. Did you download pentaho_demo-0.9.7.2.zip? It is on SourceForge under Stable Build - Milestone 2 (ver 0.9.7.2)

Let us know how it goes.

Doug Moran

Post edited by: dmoran, at: 09/15/2005 10:12

[Heeney.CS]

Thanks Doug,

When I use the pentaho_demo-0.9.7.2.zip package I get the following message continuously dumped out to the command window when trying to run the start_pentaho.bat file:
'"java"' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

I am running Java 1.5.0 (build 1.5.0-b64).

When expanded, this package did not contain a 'jre' folder within the 'pentaho-demo' folder whereas the older version did.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Chris

[dmoran]

Chris,


:ohmy: - you are correct - it's gone!

Build guy says ":blush: sorry, we will get it back in for the next build"

You have 2 options:

Option 1
Copy the jre from the old version (pentaho-demo.zip ) to the new install in the same location and edit start_pentaho.bat adding the following after "@echo on":

setlocal
set PENTAHO_PATH=%~dp0
set JAVA_HOME=%PENTAHO_PATH%jre
set PATH=%PENTAHO_PATH%jre\\bin

Option 2
Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to point to your installed JDK or JRE.
Set the PATH environment variable to include your JAVA_HOME/bin directory


Note: We have not tested with JDK 1.5 - let us know how it goes.

Thanks,
Doug

Post edited by: dmoran, at: 09/16/2005 12:09

[Heeney.CS]

Thanks Doug,

I went with option 2 and was able to start the demo :)

In this case I did not have to change the statement cd ../jboss/bin to read cd ..\\jboss\\bin. The parser in XP media Centre must accept both.

Thanks again,

Chris