OnLine optical Install answer

I tried mailing this, but it went bouncy bouncy bouncy. Piyaret Saelee writes: |> I have just got Informix Online/Optical media without any documents. |> And I tried to get some help from help-file, but I failed. |> If you have an experience about this. Please tell me an installation |> procedure. Well, here it is in a nutshell. It is assumed that you already have a supported optical subsystem in hand(e.g. Plexus DM). 1. Login as root. 2. Load the media into the tape drive or whatever 3. cd $INFORMIXDIR 4. mkdir optical; cd optical 5. tar or cpio (whichever is apropos) the contents of the tape into this directory 6. Install the optical subsystem support software (this comes from another vendor, such as Plexus) Make sure that there is a library with the above called libop.a, and use a link or make a copy in $INFORMIXDIR/optical/oplib (which will be there after step 5 above). 7. in the optical directory, run ./opticallink That will do all the linking needed. Be sure you are running it as root. 8. Go back to $INFORMIXDIR and run installonline, just as you did when you originally installed it on the machine (the linking of Optical will replace the executables so they will no longer be branded with the serial #, thus the need to run the online install script again). Note: you do not reload OnLine from tape, just rerun the script. You will need your serial # and key. If you want, I can fax you the installation instuctions from the manual. Email your fax # to davek@informix.com. You should contact your sales person to get a real copy of the manual. Dave Kosenko Informix Advanced Services Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this message are not those of Informix Software, its partners or lackeys. Anyone who says otherwise is itching for a fight. **************************************************************************** "I look back with some satisfaction on what an idiot I was when I was 25, but when I do that, I'm assuming I'm no longer an idiot." - Andy Rooney