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Greetings, Grace,
First I would make sure that your Sun server is prepared for Oracle - make sure all the required Sun packages are installed and that the Shared Memory parameters have been set in /etc/system. Carefully read and note everything in the Oracle Solaris install.
Unless you get 3rd party tools, Solaris does not have a SMIT-like administrative tool (this is not saying that it's inferior, only different). Disk partitioning and setup is different in Solaris than in AIX (here, I have to give it to IBM for the ease of configuring LVM on AIX)
As others have stated, you can install the Oracle executables and binaries (the Solaris install will be fairly similar to that on AIX; the only thing I've ever run into is issues about the TERM type - no big deal if you're using an xterm), create the database, and export from the AIX system, import to the Sun system. Pre-create the tablespaces and put 'ignore=y' on the import.
Solaris does have a 'vold' - so you don't have to be root to mount the CD (HP and IBM - are you listening (ha)?). Oracle runs very well on Sun, so I don't think you'll have to worry too much.
Once you get Oracle installed and running on your Sun box, you will find that it works pretty much the same as on the IBM. You may have a few unique OS tuning issues - but Oracle does a decent job of covering the major ones in the 'Tuning Oracle for Solaris' guide that comes with the installation set.
I've installed Oracle on HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, VMS, supported it on SGI (not the best platform for a database) as well as on NT.
All the best to you.
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Received on Mon Oct 11 1999 - 19:23:50 CDT