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> A better solution is to go through, after the installation, and dump all
of
> the tutorial and template materials that are completely unnecessary. These
> include the templates Oracle uses to build the sample databases (I think
> between 400-800MB), everything in directories named DOC, SAMPLE, and those
> with similar names, all of the WAV, PDF, HTML, AVI, MOV, JPG, GIF, files.
etc.
> And if you do it well you can knock it down to not much larger than an 8i
> installation.
>
> But just to make sure you don't axe something by mistake. First copy the
files
> to a mirror directory system and leave them there for a week or two.
>
> Daniel Morgan
>
Using the installer I uninstalled all packages I do not need, and after each
uninstall I checked if I could connect my database.
And I removed all wav's, pdf's and movies. Then I deleted all samples and
demo directories
Now I have an Oracle directory of 'only' 900Mb. Much better!
Thanks! Received on Wed Oct 23 2002 - 12:47:46 CDT