Re: INSTALL INFX on SUN SOLARIS

Ed Bidinotto wrote: > > 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 Ed, You (most likely) already have your disk partitions setup on the Sun Sparc. This _may_ make things more difficult. First, determine what size partition you want to dedicate to the Informix DB, ie. 20MB or something. If you already have a partition that you are NOT using for a file system that matches what you want to dedicate to the DB, then you are in luck. [If not, then this is the interesting part. Pick a partition that could stand to lose the space and hack away --> be sure to backup first! :')] For example, you might decide to use /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s5 (basically the 'sixth' partition on your boot drive). Don't create a file system on this partition because you won't be needing it anyway -- and, I'm not sure, but it may cause problems. BTW, I'm in the process of setting up a Sparc 20, too. It will host an Informix DB, but its main chores are hosting a DCS system. GOOD LUCK! Steve Shimp