Re: INSTALL INFX on SUN SOLARIS

In article <320B5CCE.45FF@ucar.edu>, 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 Try looking at fdisk, format and prtvtoc in the UNIX man pages. prtvtoc prints partitioning information for disk drives. fdisk is used for pastitioning format - I can't remember but it is useful. Raw disk device are of the form /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 c0 = controler 0 t0 - ?? d0 - ?? s0 = partition 0 ( partitions on a disk are numbers 0 to 8. Note 1 partition 2 is always of type BACKUP and covers the whole disk I believe it's designed to allow you to dump the whole disk to tape for backup purposes. Note 2Each partition has a type associated with it, read the above man pages for more info. -- David Williams