Thanks for first responces.
Instaled this morning
indications all successful
typing these commands as "postgres" a user as per the INSTALL
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
gives:
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster does not find the database system.
Expected to find it in the PGDATA directory "/usr/local/pgsql/data", but
unable to open file with pathname
"/usr/local/pgsql/data/base/template1/pg_class".
No data directory -- can't proceed.
Thanks in advance
Ashley