Installing on Windows 7 and other non-supported stacks

When installing on Windows 7, you are likely to get a NullPointerException before the splash screen. This can be avoided by setting:

-Dos.name="Windows Server 2008"

to the csInstall.bat or csInstall.sh.

Also if you spend any time installing or working on unsupported stacks, you may like to know that some unsupported stacks are pre-configured in the cs-core.xml but commented out. For example, HSQLDB as a database choice exists, but it is commented out. Similarly a "generic" J2EE application server choice exists, but it commented out. Installing on unsupported stacks is of course strongly discouraged for anything except a test, and no official help exists for such stacks.

Also good to know, is that all the tags found in the installer control files like cscore.xml and csinstallbase.xml are documented in the csinstall.dtd, with text describing their function and inputs.