Re: Suggestions for improving the 7.x OnLine Engine installation and configuration

Posted in 1997

David Williams — Fri, 28 Mar 1997 10:04:53 +0000 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <3339ab80.11598267@gate.idg.no>, Nils Myklebust <Nils.Myklebust@idg.no> writes > >This TEN bussiness stinks. With a new version of allmost anything we >have to reinstall everything. >What it should have been of course is a simple copy of the current >informix directory tree to a new one (using tar or whatever), and >install any product on top of that. The risk of doing anything wrong >would deminish, and we wouldn't have to install again the old software >that we didn't upgrade this time. Agreed. >There may be a problem of course in that Informix must make sure that >needed existing files aren't overwritten, but that's realy minor. > Proably not or else they would have done so... -- David Williams