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installing oracle 8i on Solaris 9

From: Pachanga <pachanga_at_linkline.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 21:30:24 -0800
Message-ID: <v58q0q8m8mg76@corp.supernews.com>


Ok, here's my current disk setup before the Oracle install and mount points:

> bash-2.05$ df -k
> Filesystem kbytes used avail

capacity          Mounted on

> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 2912943 1032110 1822575 37%
/
> /proc 0 0
0 0% /proc
> mnttab 0 0
0 0% /etc/mnttab
> fd 0 0
0 0% /dev/fd
> swap 645496 40 645456
1% /var/run
> swap 645784 328 645456
1% /tmp
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 35045541 1736104 32958982 6%
/export/home

I downloaded the oracle 8i binaries from the Oracle site, and saved them to /export/home/oracle . oracle is the user I created to own the database after the install. It's also a member of oinstall (unix acct. setup to handle the Oracle Univ. Installer Inventory) and dba (unix acct. setup to contain both the SYSDBA & SYSOPER roles). I want to setup the mount points like this:

/db/ora817/ora817home    -- Oracle Binaries
/db/ora817/db817             --DB files
/db/ora817/oradb1            --db files of 1st db

Does this seem like a good strategy? Also, how would i go about mounting these mout points? mount /db/ora817/ora817home <?> ? As u can see, i'm a little lost ... ;) After mounting these paths/locations, would i need to transfer the oracle binaries from oracle ~ to /db/ora817/db817 and do the install from there? Or would I do the install from oracle~ (/export/home/oracle) ? Also, as you can see, there is a lot of space left on /export/home but not on / . What would u guys do? ----- Original Message -----
From: "Lyndon Tiu" <ltiu_at_alumni.sfu.ca>
To: "Les Ayudo" <info_at_lesayudo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 10:11 AM Subject: Re: installing oracle 8i on Solaris 9

> Hmmm,
>
> It took me about two months of reading and trying before I got this
> right.
>
> I do not have my "play" db with me at the moment so I cannot give you
> direct help.
>
> I can give you approx. help.
>
> 1) Create group "oinstall"
>
> 2) Create user "oracle" with group "oinstall"
>
> 3) Create group "osdba"
>
> 4) create group "osoper"
>
> 5) set PATH=/DB/O92iBase/O92iHome/bin ... <plus your other path which
> includes
> /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/<xxx>
>
> <xxx> stands for the directory holding the "as" and "ar" binaries
> which Oracle needs.
>
> 6) Make sure oracle user has the ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_BASE env
> ironment variables set.
>
> 7) Install Oracle binaries (as oracle user). It will ask you about the
> groups .. use your head "oinstall" is the group for the installation
> files, osdba and osoper are for the osdba and osoper group (easy eh?).
>
> 8) Halfway through, it will ask you if you want to create a database
> say yes and follow instruction - it will be helpful if you play around
> at this point - play around I mean you have to do this a dozen times
> in one day (install, re-install, do it again). This is how I learned.
>
> You know what, I think it would be very hard for me to walk you
> through all the steps. I actually learned all these on my own - by
> reading that freaking 200+ page manual plus reading through all those
> documents in that url link I emailed you last night.
>
> I suggest you be patient, take your time and read through the manuals.
>
> --
> Lyndon Tiu
>
>
> Quoting Les Ayudo <info_at_lesayudo.com>:
>
> > how exactly would I assign the the mount points? I mean I don't
> > which
> > directories to actually mount where... ?sorry if this is a dumb ?
> > THnaks.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 12:48 AM
> >
> >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > >
> > > Just give the mount points names you are happy with
> > >
> > > The examples you normally see use U01,U02.
> > >
> > >
> > > It basically means that your software should be installed on
> > different
> > mount
> > > point/disk than your db files.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > Sent: woensdag 19 februari 2003 8:49
> > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm stuck in the mount section of the tutorial. I'm only trying
> > to setup
> > > one DB and I don't get how I should setup a mount point for the
> > software
> > and
> > > one for each db file using /pm pattern. P is the string constant
> > and m is
> > > the fixed length key to distinguish between mount points.
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L"
> > <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 8:23 PM
> > >
> > >
> > > > I've been trying to *prepare* my sol box to install
> > Oracle.......
> > > >
> > > > The freakin' install guide is 202 pages long...Is there an
> > easier method
> > > to
> > > > install oracle than reading 200+ pages? Anyone know any good
> > tutorials
> > or
> > > > websites where I can get some newbie info on installing
> > oracle?
> > > >
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