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Re: IIF-10.00.UC5I1-1 installation problems

Posted By: Martin Fuerderer
Date: Tuesday, 27 March 2007, at 12:46 p.m.

In Response To: Re: IIF-10.00.UC5I1-1 installation problems (Alan Polinsky)

Hi,

hmm. There seems to be a family of AMD K6 processors
(which to my understanding all have these special 3D
capabilities, though these are not helpful with IDS anyway):

AMD K6, AMD K6-2, AMD K6-III.

See e.g. http://www.amd.com/us-en/0,,3715_13530_1260_1217%5E1102,00.html

My guess is, that the AMD K6-III is compatible with Intels Pentium III
processors, but the other two are not. But that is just a guess, as the
AMD documentation doesn't seem to contain compatibility info
regarding rival Intel processors ... at least I didn't find it.

With that you can try to install the i686 package on the AMD machine, but
I can't tell you whether that will work. :-(

Installing IDS 10.x on a Pentium III will work very well (with the correct
Linux). Going this way may save you a lot of time and trouble (trouble
with fixing the AMD machine after an attempted upgrade gone wrong).

Regards,
Martin
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linux-informix-bounces@iiug.org wrote on 27.03.2007 14:23:20:

> Thanks for getting back so quickly. The machine in question is using an
> AMD K6 3D processor running at 350 Mhz. Since this is merely a test
> machine to see how the software works with our other software, I don't
> much care about retrieval speed. I could, if you suggest, try to install

> the i686 version of glibc. Would I be better off to move the Informix
> 9.4 instance to this machine and install the 10 on my 866 dual processor

> Pentium III machine? My ultimate goal is to have Informix 9.4 on one
> machine and 10 on the other.
>
> Alan
>
> On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 06:49 -0500, Martin Fuerderer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > IDS 10.00.x for Linux on Intel 32-bit is built for i686 compatible
> > processors
> > (i.e. Pentium III). The i686 version of glibc is required.
> >
> > Could it be that you are on an older processor type?
> >
> > Please see the Machine Specific Notes ( in
$INFORMIXDIR/release/en_us/0333
> > )
> > for more information, or look at:
> > http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/html/22963450.html
> >
> > Regards,
> > Martin
>
>
>
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Messages In This Thread

• IIF-10.00.UC5I1-1 installation problems
  Alan Polinsky -- Monday, 26 March 2007, at 9:42 p.m.
  • Re: IIF-10.00.UC5I1-1 installation problems
    Martin Fuerderer -- Tuesday, 27 March 2007, at 3:36 a.m.
    • Re: IIF-10.00.UC5I1-1 installation problems
      Alan Polinsky -- Tuesday, 27 March 2007, at 6:37 a.m.
      • Re: IIF-10.00.UC5I1-1 installation problems
        Martin Fuerderer -- Tuesday, 27 March 2007, at 7:49 a.m.
        • Re: IIF-10.00.UC5I1-1 installation problems
          Alan Polinsky -- Tuesday, 27 March 2007, at 8:23 a.m.
          • Re: IIF-10.00.UC5I1-1 installation problems
            Martin Fuerderer -- Tuesday, 27 March 2007, at 12:46 p.m.
            • Re: IIF-10.00.UC5I1-1 installation problems
              Alan Polinsky -- Wednesday, 28 March 2007, at 6:31 a.m.
          • Re: IIF-10.00.UC5I1-1 installation problems
            Andreas Breitfeld -- Wednesday, 28 March 2007, at 5:48 a.m.
      • Re: IIF-10.00.UC5I1-1 installation problems
        ART KAGEL, BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEXIN -- Tuesday, 27 March 2007, at 9:11 a.m.
        • RE: IIF-10.00.UC5I1-1 installation problems
          Robert Roussey\(IT\) -- Tuesday, 27 March 2007, at 9:17 a.m.
  • Re: IIF-10.00.UC5I1-1 installation problems *NM*
    JORDAO MACHOCO -- Thursday, 17 April 2008, at 9:22 a.m.

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