Re: Setting up informix on Fedora Core 4

If you have a choice for the OS, I would recommend trying CentOS 4. On 2 Dec 2005 05:18:55 -0800, hoeriksen@gmail.com <hoeriksen@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm a complete newbie with Informix but I've been given the job of > setting up a server which is to run under Fedora Core 4. > Now, from the documentation I've been given I'm supposed to set it up > with raw devices then start the rawdevices service. As you probably > know this feature has been declared deprecated. From reading previous > posts from this news group it seems that people have still successfully > deployed this setup (eg: > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.databases.informix/browse_thread/thread= > /112755aee33bb105/55327db083678e33?lnk=3Dst&q=3Dinformix+fedora&rnum=3D4#55= > 327db083678e33) > but I can't seem to find any pointers on how to do this. > I haven't yet tried to start the installation of the database server > itself as I wanted to make sure that I'd done all the necessary > preparations had been done. > I've set up the db-volumes, made the user, installed the necessary > packages etc. but I'm not sure where to go from here. > Could someone give me any pointers, urls, explanations etc of what > exactly I need to do with regards to the file systems and what I need > to do in order to work around the raw device setup? > > Any help is much appreciated! > > Regards, > H=E5vard sending to informix-list