Re: Time for Initializing (setup) - follow up

Thanx Troy and Obnoxio for your answers! The clown had the answer that led me to it, this time. The version I used wasn't able to install on SP4, I reinstalled NT4 with SP3 and then it worked fine. Took about 1 hour to do the initialization part, though. But NT is the customers choice so NT it is! The production db they have is nearly 40 GB and runs OK on NT. I'm not that religious about platforms, if it's a good product it should run well on whatever OS... ;-) Thanks again for your answer. Jonas >From: "Troy L. Hewitt" <troy@informix.com> >To: <jb300@hotmail.com> >Subject: Re: Time for Initializing (setup) >Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 11:28:03 -0400 > >Jonas, > >The problem is actually with the size of your initial DBSpace. 200MB to >Unix is small. 200MB to NT is huge. Since NT doesn't support raw devices, >Informix must request NT to allocate a 200MB "chunk". I'm not sure if NT >can display the size as it's being built, but check with NT Explorer to see >how far the build has gotten. > >Troy > > >Jonas Bergstr'm <jb300@hotmail.com> wrote in message >news:<7q11c5$2ec$1@news.xmission.com>... > > > > Hi community, > > > > How long would you consider it to take to install 7.23 on NT 4 sp4? > > (128 MB RAM, pentium 200 mhz). > > > > I've choose 200 MB initial diskspace and it has run for 3 hours now... > > > > "Your INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server is being initialized..." it says!? > > > > Regards > > > > Jonas Bergstr'm > > Informix DBA (beginner) > > Siemens Business Services AB > > Sweden > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________ > > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com