Re: Installing 8.0 with 7.3.4

From: Peter Sharman <psharman_at_us.oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:53:16 -0800
Message-ID: <36F95ECC.A57DBA85@us.oracle.com>

Mike

In almost all cases I've seen, people install both Oracle8 and Oracle7 under one user ID. Why should it be a "real messy business"? I've never seen any problems with it, and would be interested in what problems you've encountered.

HTH. Pete

Mike Mountjoy wrote:

> I've done this, though ,under two seperate users on the same solaris box and
> it
> worked like a dream. The only point where both installtions encounter
> eachother is in the oratab file
> which contains details of what is running on a box for restart init scripts
> and the like. I ran two listeners
> on different ports ,but, they should both run from a single listener.
>
> Installing under a single user would be a real messy business. In fact avoid
> it.
>
> I just needed a complete build setup for both ora 7 and ora8
>
> Hope this might be a help.
>
> Christopher Allan <ghm81_at_dial.pipex.com> wrote in message
> news:7db0he$6s9$1_at_plug.news.pipex.net...
> > We are building a test server and it would be great if we could install
> > Oracle 8.0 and Oracle 7.3.4 at the same time.
> >
> > Has anybody else attempted this? - if so, what should I look out for?
> >
> >
> >
> >

Regards

Pete

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