Re: Desperately need help

Rafal Szukala wrote in message <35A27048.7ED01373@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu>... >I'm a database analyst at the University of Iowa. We have an old AT&T >3b2/500 computer running UNIX System V ver. 3.1. Recently this machine >suffered a hard disk failure and everything needed to be reinstalled. >There was an Informix Database ver 3.30.?? on it. I do have the original >installation floppies but no documentation on how to go about installing >it. > >I would be most grateful if I could get any info in how to install this >software. >Desperately needing help, > Rafal My experience shows that most older install often are tar format (some were cpio). Get a directory of what is on the first floppy, the install script is there. Extract the install script & execute it. Probably need to run the install as root and make sure you have a group & user of Informix (some real old scripts did not create the groups). I known these are more general then you can use. but finding the file format, and what device to use will solve 80% of the quuestions. The install script (possibly with instructions or a readme) should finish the rest. I may be able to dig up the instructions for an early ISC 3.2 system, but the device name will probably be different. S.W.