Re: 9iRel2 install on RHEL ES4

That's interesting. I've heard exactly the opposite from several folks, including Werner. By ignoring the system prerequisites, you forego allowing the installer to check for other important factors such as memory, swap, disk space, etc. It seems to me that spoofing the installer while allowing all other checks to be be made is a pretty good idea.  The change is only temporary while installing Oracle. The original contents are restored after the install, so no impact on up2date.  John Smiley

 On 6/22/05, Jesse, Rich <Rich.Jesse_at_quadtechworld.com> wrote:
>
> Agreed. And in cases where the Oracle Installer is itself installed using
> ignoreSysPrereqs, I'll instead modify $OUI_HOME/oraparams.ini to add the
> "offending" OS, just in case some if the SysPrereqs should not be met in the
> future.
> My $.02,
> Rich
>
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> *Subject:* RE: 9iRel2 install on RHEL ES4
>
> This changing of /etc/redhat-release is not a very good idea. This file is
> used by up2date and spoofing it to install software is IMHO, not a very good
> idea. Better to use the -ignoreSysPrereqs when invoking runInstaller.
>
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> Ron Reidy
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