[OSM-dev] {To Nick} hello! need expert to hand hold me with DB setup

[Nick Whitelegg]

>Ah Very good!  Yes, I am primarily on Windows, however certainly can 
setup something in a Linux environment, though I am going to need pretty 
good >instructions.  How does this PostGIS DB best run., I mean, in terms 
of a Linux distribution?  What do you have? :-)

You should be able to get PostGIS for Windows so won't need linux. Try 
http://postgis.refractions.net.

Nick