Re: INSTALL INFX on SUN SOLARIS

> Ed Bidinotto <bidinott@ucar.edu> writes: > Has anyone ever installed Informix on a SUN - SOlaris 2.4? (Stupid > question....I'm sure someone has...) > > > Anyway, > I have all the Informix code sitting on my server and I'm very familiar > with how to set up and manage Informix (7.1) but I've only done it on > IBM boxes...RS6000. It is pretty simple with the Smit utility. > > However, > How do you allocate disk chunks on Sun machines. I have a Sun Sparc 20 > running Solaris and I'm not sure how to grab raw disk space. > > Tks > > Ed > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ed Bidinotto bidinott@ucar.edu > BIS Network Mgr (303) 497-8881 > >>>> It has been my experience that you have to find the character special device you want to use as a chunk i.e. ls -ali /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 ( whatever ) and change the ownership & group to informix to the file that it is LINKED to, not the /dev/rdsk/..... You also have to chmod it to 660. You can then link the extremley long-named file to something more manageable, such as /dev/db_data or whatever. Then use onmonitor to add /dev/db_data as a chunk. Pete