Re: First Time install of Informix on NT

Also sprach "Viegas, John" <ViegasJP@panasonic.com> : : : In the very near future, I will be installing Informix 7.22 on :Windows NT4.0. I am very familiar with the installation on Unix, but :have never done an install on NT. If anyone has any guidance, or found :any quirks which would be helpful, I would greatly appreciate it. I've done a few to date. If you are installing on a "clean" system (i.e. no Informix product on it yet), it is pretty straightforward. You will need NTFS filesystem space for the chunks (Note: with 7.22, you can install the product on FAT but the chunks must be NTFS; with 7.3, they now require the product to be installed on NTFS as well.) If it is your first go, I suggest going with the typical install, which requires the minimal input from you. If you want to be daring, go with the custom - there really isn't that much to worry about. You need to specify the server name & number, & the dbspace name (you will get 2 - one rootdbs and one other), as well as the f/s & size for the primary & mirror chunks (you can have no mirror chunk if desired). After that, it is pretty much auto-pilot. If you are planning on upgrading to 7.3 any time soon, I'd wait and install 7.3 clean. Reason is, Informix on NT does not seem to be happy about upgrading. Every install of a new version I've done only succeeded when I uninstalled the previous version first (I've done at least 3 upgrades on various machines). With 7.3 I had to uninstall ALL Informix s/w and be sure the registry was clean as well before I stopped having problems. Another reason for going right to 7.3, apart from the features, is that a lot of the tools interface is rather different than in previous versions (IECC especially). If you get used to 7.22, you might find 7.3 a bit frustrating - I know I did. Not because of a lack of functionality or anything, but because functionality was moved around, tools were removed, etc. In of itself, it is a decent operating environment, in many ways better than the earlier versions. You'll have to get used to starting the server from Control Panel->Services, but that is no biggie. Also get familiar with setnet32 for setting up the "environment" for proper access. That's all I can think of offhand. Good luck! Dave Dave (posting from home, speaking as a representative of nobody but himself) ********** "Everybody plays the fool, sometimes."