Re: installing ids on linux

Posted in 2004

Daniel — Mon, 9 Feb 2004 23:27:35 -0500 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Alexey, Thank you very much. Your suggestion worked! Dan "Alexey Sonkin" <alexeis@grandvirtual.com> wrote in message news:c0719u$9ef$1@terabinaries.xmission.com... > > Daniel, > > Don't use ANSI-compatibility flag '-c' > > Try 'cpio -duvi < filename.cpi' > > Best regards, > Alexey Sonkin > > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel [mailto:dhw377@nothing.no.spam.com] > Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 6:43 PM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: installing ids on linux > > > Hi all, > > I am having problems trying to install IDS 9.4 (trial) on a Linux Debian > computer. From the IBM download page, the instructions were to run: > > cpio -icbdumB < the_ids_filename_here.cpi > > I tried both IDS.9.40.UC3.LINUX32.cpi and IBM.IDS.9.40.UC2E1.cpi files with > the cpio command and got the following error message: > > cpio: premature end of file > > > Thanks for any help! > > sending to informix-list > > > sending to informix-list