I'm installing IDS 9.4 on a new machine (Solaris 9).
The install went fine.
I set up a 512MB raw chunk for the rootdbs.
I set the ROOTSIZE to 60000
When I do an oninit -i, I get the following:

bash-2.05$ oninit -i

This action will initialize IBM Informix Dynamic Server;
any existing IBM Informix Dynamic Server databases will NOT be
accessible -
Do you wish to continue (y/n)? y
oninit: Not enough room in ROOT DBspace.
       Requested 161038K, ONCONFIG value 'ROOTSIZE' 60000K.

The relevant onconfig parms look like this:

# Root Dbspace Configuration

ROOTNAME        rootdbs         # Root dbspace name
ROOTPATH        /dbms/links/rootchnk # Path for device containing root
dbspace
ROOTOFFSET      0               # Offset of root dbspace into device
(Kbytes)
ROOTSIZE        60000           # Size of root dbspace (Kbytes)

And the link to the rootdbs chunk looks like this:

bash-2.05$ pwd
/dbms/links
bash-2.05$ ls -la root*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 informix informix      18 Apr 27 13:14 rootchnk ->
/dev/rdsk/c1t4d2s0
bash-2.05$

That space is on a Raid controller -- c1t4d2s0 is partitioned as
cylinders 0-255 for 512.00MB

So I'm not understanding why it's not having enough space for rootdbs,
and I'm hoping it's something really simple that someone can clue me in!

Thanks,

Brian McLaughlin
Administrative Computing
George Fox University
(503) 554-2587

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