Re: Installing Oracle 8i ON red hat linux 5.2

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jimjagan_at_my-deja.com wrote:
: Hi
: I am installing ORACLE 8i on RED HAT LINUX 5.2.
: I had the following problem.could some one help me with it.

: The "dba" group for oracle user was created and I continued with the
: installation process. The installation process has to be run from the
: start after the option create database account and filling the fields it

: asks to locate the file for installation of product or in short call he
: asks to select oracle product for installation. The first error came was

: "failed to create unix.prd" file. After locating the file physically
: copied thru the file manager utility the file unix.prd into the oracle
: directory where it looks for this file during installation. After this
: step was executed i had to again run the installer program, every time
: the oracle installer program is run i had to fill the details again.
: There was one more error at the product selection set screen this time
: it could not find the file orainst.vrf in the hard disk. The error msg
: was "orainst.vrf(0) : FILE_NOT_FOUND while verifying orainst. (no such
: file or directory). Again i had to locate the file from CD and copy from

: the CD to the hard disk in the specified directory where the
: installation kit will be looking for it. After completing this process i

: had to run again the oracle installer kit. This time it gave an error
: msg while installing the products the error message was "oraview.vrf(0)
: FILE_NOT_FOUND while verifying oraview. (no such file or directory)".
: The file "oraview.vrf" was not there in both the CD's that you sent.
: Therefore I could not further proceed as this file should be available
: for proceeding with the installation process.

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: Thanks
: jim jagan

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