Re: Installation of Oracle 8.1.7 on SunOS 5.8 fails

Karl Hahn wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
>
> again - thanks for your help!
>
> > I agree. Nothing jumps out at me with respect to this and I've never
> > encountered this error. The only suggestion I can make is to reinstall.
>
> What do you means with 'reinstall'? Reinstallation of Oracle with the
> Universal Installer is not possible because Oracle was never installed
> completely. I tried to start the Installer again after deleting all files and
> directories which have been created during the installation, i.e.
> /opt/oracle/product
> /opt/oracle/oraInventory
> /var/opt/oracle/??? (was a file *.loc - don't know it exactly right now).
>
> Are there any other (configuration) files which are created during the
> installation? I' m not sure but I think to remember that the Installer
> had a message box about 'where to install the oraInventory' which
> was never displayed since the first installation again. Where is
> this information stored?
>
> > Though one thought is that I don't su to root to run the script. I log on as
> > root and su to Oracle.
>
> You mean you run the script as user 'oracle'? Or you didn't use 'su' but
> did a login as 'root' to execute the script? I can't believe that this will
> make a difference, but UNIX is a miracle and I am rather desperate at the
> moment, so I will try it ;-)
>
> Bye and thanks,
> Charlie

By reinstall, if you need to do it, I mean remove everything that is Oracle and start from the beginning.

Hopefully you won't need to.

Daniel Morgan Received on Sun Jun 23 2002 - 23:37:37 CDT