Re: PLEASE HELP settle a debate!!!

"Paul Gray" <Zen.Scorpio@DiaL.PipeX.CoM> wrote: >We currently have Informix running on a SCO UNIX box - > the situation is that we need to upgrade the system -- now one chap >here believes that all you need to do is get a DOS floppy boot up and copy >the disc using his parallel tape streamer and restore to the new system - I >said that was fairy land stuff due to the fact that even if you could do >that the Informix database would go belly up as the security (installation >files) are linked to there i-node address's hence you need to install >everything from scratch. Are you running SE? If so, then it's possible. I am not sure if it's possible with Online. -- Mr. Rajendra Singh, B. Sc. (Rajendra_Singh@msn.com) "What is understood need not be discussed." - Loren Adams