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Re: installing oracle 8i on Solaris 9

From: Les Ayudo <info_at_lesayudo.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:08:49 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00553262.20030220100849@fatcity.com>


Any suggestions?
----- Original Message -----
To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 7:28 PM

> Ok, here's my current disk setup before the Oracle install and mount
points:
>
>
>
> > bash-2.05$ df -k
> > Filesystem kbytes used avail
> capacity Mounted on
> > /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 2912943 1032110 1822575 37%
> /
> > /proc 0 0
> 0 0% /proc
> > mnttab 0 0
> 0 0% /etc/mnttab
> > fd 0 0
> 0 0% /dev/fd
> > swap 645496 40 645456
> 1% /var/run
> > swap 645784 328 645456
> 1% /tmp
> > /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 35045541 1736104 32958982 6%
> /export/home
>
> I downloaded the oracle 8i binaries from the Oracle site, and saved them
to
> /export/home/oracle . oracle is the user I created to own the database
> after the install. It's also a member of oinstall (unix acct. setup to
> handle the Oracle Univ. Installer Inventory) and dba (unix acct. setup to
> contain both the SYSDBA & SYSOPER roles). I want to setup the mount
points
> like this:
>
> /db/ora817/ora817home -- Oracle Binaries
> /db/ora817/db817 --DB files
> /db/ora817/oradb1 --db files of 1st db
>
> Does this seem like a good strategy? Also, how would i go about mounting
> these mout points? mount /db/ora817/ora817home <?> ?
> As u can see, i'm a little lost ... ;) After mounting these
> paths/locations, would i need to transfer the oracle binaries from oracle
~
> to /db/ora817/db817 and do the install from there? Or would I do the
> install from oracle~ (/export/home/oracle) ? Also, as you can see, there
is
> a lot of space left on /export/home but not on / . What would u guys do?
> ----- Original Message -----
> To: "Les Ayudo" <info_at_lesayudo.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 10:11 AM
>
>
> > Hmmm,
> >
> > It took me about two months of reading and trying before I got this
> > right.
> >
> > I do not have my "play" db with me at the moment so I cannot give you
> > direct help.
> >
> > I can give you approx. help.
> >
> > 1) Create group "oinstall"
> >
> > 2) Create user "oracle" with group "oinstall"
> >
> > 3) Create group "osdba"
> >
> > 4) create group "osoper"
> >
> > 5) set PATH=/DB/O92iBase/O92iHome/bin ... <plus your other path which
> > includes
> > /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/<xxx>
> >
> > <xxx> stands for the directory holding the "as" and "ar" binaries
> > which Oracle needs.
> >
> > 6) Make sure oracle user has the ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_BASE env
> > ironment variables set.
> >
> > 7) Install Oracle binaries (as oracle user). It will ask you about the
> > groups .. use your head "oinstall" is the group for the installation
> > files, osdba and osoper are for the osdba and osoper group (easy eh?).
> >
> > 8) Halfway through, it will ask you if you want to create a database
> > say yes and follow instruction - it will be helpful if you play around
> > at this point - play around I mean you have to do this a dozen times
> > in one day (install, re-install, do it again). This is how I learned.
> >
> > You know what, I think it would be very hard for me to walk you
> > through all the steps. I actually learned all these on my own - by
> > reading that freaking 200+ page manual plus reading through all those
> > documents in that url link I emailed you last night.
> >
> > I suggest you be patient, take your time and read through the manuals.
> >
> > --
> > Lyndon Tiu
> >
> >
> > Quoting Les Ayudo <info_at_lesayudo.com>:
> >
> > > how exactly would I assign the the mount points? I mean I don't
> > > which
> > > directories to actually mount where... ?sorry if this is a dumb ?
> > > THnaks.
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 12:48 AM
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Just give the mount points names you are happy with
> > > >
> > > > The examples you normally see use U01,U02.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > It basically means that your software should be installed on
> > > different
> > > mount
> > > > point/disk than your db files.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > Sent: woensdag 19 februari 2003 8:49
> > > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I'm stuck in the mount section of the tutorial. I'm only trying
> > > to setup
> > > > one DB and I don't get how I should setup a mount point for the
> > > software
> > > and
> > > > one for each db file using /pm pattern. P is the string constant
> > > and m is
> > > > the fixed length key to distinguish between mount points.
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L"
> > > <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 8:23 PM
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > I've been trying to *prepare* my sol box to install
> > > Oracle.......
> > > > >
> > > > > The freakin' install guide is 202 pages long...Is there an
> > > easier method
> > > > to
> > > > > install oracle than reading 200+ pages? Anyone know any good
> > > tutorials
> > > or
> > > > > websites where I can get some newbie info on installing
> > > oracle?
> > > > >
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