Re: best way to partition for installing oracle

But if we were talking about 2x18GB harddrive; what would you recommend me. I can provide you with more technical detail if you want to.

Danny

"Daniel Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:3DC7061E.F3EC4EED_at_exesolutions.com...
> Danny wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > i need a lot of information on what is the best way to set up the
harddisk
> > for installing an oracle server.
> > the installation will be done on a Windows NT Server 4.0 Stand Alone
server;
> > the amount of diskspace is 18 GB (not much but our company isn't that
big).
> > no Raid controller, just a straight forward IDE harddrive.
> >
> > if i want to partition it this way, can you tell me of it is
recommendeble?
> >
> > one primairy partitioning NTFS formatted size: 2048 MB for the operating
> > system.
> > the rest is extended; as for the logical drives: 2 logical drives: the
first
> > NTFS formatted size 2048 for the Swapfile, the rest of the logical drive
is
> > for the installation of the Oracle runtime and datafiles. or is it best
> > having separate partitions for the Oracle runtime and datafiles? Or do I
> > have to set up stripe-set?
> >
> > i know the OTN.ORACLE.COM site having the documentation; and having the
> > installation guide for installing Oracle, but i would like the best way
of
> > setting up the partitioning.
> >
> > Danny
>
> If you are talking about a single physical disk it doesn't matter what you
do.
> Partitioning in Windows is meaningless without multiple disks, RAID,
striping,
> etc.
>
> Daniel Morgan
>
Received on Tue Nov 05 2002 - 12:59:07 CST