Re: Help critical install shared cdroms

From: mhthomas <qnxodba_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 11:14:43 -0400
Message-ID: <d6bad0800505150814799e4c6e@mail.gmail.com>

On 5/15/05, Paula_Stankus_at_doh.state.fl.us <Paula_Stankus_at_doh.state.fl.us> w= rote:
> So I ended up saying the heck with it as I don't want to go much farther
> without hooking up with the system admin.

>=20

> I instead did a scp from the disk to the target host which brings up
> another question.

>=20

> Doing a scp -pr everything is owned by root - any known "gotchas" about
> copying the files with "-pr" then running the install from a staging
> area?

>=20

I don't know about root. But, I would not scp contents from a CDROM as root, rather I would download the zip files from either otn or edelivery.oracle.com and expand as oracle user, if possible. I don't know if the Solaris versions you need are available to d/l, but it seems safer.

Good luck.

Regards,

Mike Thomas

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