RE: RE: New installation

Many thanks to the folks that replied to my initial question. I guess I was focusing on why there wasn't enough space on the partition (when there was) rather than why I hadn't configured rootdbs large enough to hold what I'd asked it to hold. I've never set up an instance from scratch, so this is a good experience for me. (fortunately, I have a dedicated server here to experiment/practice on before we have to move our production DB). Another little tidbit I learned was to have Informix offset into the chunk that occupies cylinder 0 on the device. I put rootdbs right over the partition map. IDS came up and ran just fine -- until I tried to add another dbspace, at which point pretty much *everything* stopped working. That was a good one. I surely appreciate the quick accurate answers from you folks that have been there before. Thanks, Brian McLaughlin Administrative Computing George Fox University (503) 554-2587 sending to informix-list

"Brian McLaughlin" <bmclaugh@georgefox.edu> wrote in message news:1114721548.919db73efb381c1d02ce0fa106000c18@teranews... > > Another little tidbit I learned was to have Informix offset into the > chunk that occupies cylinder 0 on the device. I put rootdbs right over > the partition map. IDS came up and ran just fine -- until I tried to > add another dbspace, at which point pretty much *everything* stopped > working. That was a good one. Right. Many of us have done this. Once! However, in your original post you said you were setting up a new Solaris 9 server: you really ought (in my not-so-humble opinion) to be using Solaris Volume Manager (or whatever the implementation of soft partitions is now bundled as) which is integral to Solaris 9. It'll make your life easier in the long run. In fact, given the "cylinder 0" problem on Solaris, it already would have done!