Re: Setting up informix on Fedora Core 4

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. OK - which version of IDS? That's rather important. > 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=st&q=informix+fedora&rnum=4#55327db083678e33) > 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. The latest versions of Linux tend to prefer the use of O_DIRECT access to regular cooked files, and the latest versions of IDS go with the flow. Which is why the version of IDS is rather critical information. > 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? -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2005.02 -- http://dbi.perl.org/

It's version 10.0. Does this mean that I can just start the installer and go from there?