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Re: installing oracle 8i ON linux red hat 5.2

From: Gene Homan <homang_at_pcisys.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 19:14:24 -0600
Message-ID: <rr6sa0i8krl16@corp.supernews.com>


You need to be running Red Hat 6.0, Mandrake 6.0, Suse 6.1 or a the latest release of whatever distro you prefer. You'll spend much more time trying to run down the library incompatibilities than just upgrading. Such is the nature of a rapidly changing platform.

Later,
Gene...

Rick Jolley wrote in message <7ov8u7$5ga$1_at_inet16.us.oracle.com>...
>Oracle 8i 8.1.5 was certified against RH 6.0, which contains newer versions
>of some packages, specifically glibc 2.1. I am not sure if a simple upgrade
>of glibc from the 2.0 found in RH5.2 to 2.1 will be sufficient.
>
>Oracle 8.0.5.x was built against RH5.2.
>
>Rick
>
>Any comments/sugestions/corrections are welcome.
>
>
>jimjagan_at_my-deja.com wrote in message <7ov04i$e0o$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>...
>>Hi
>>I am installing ORACLE 8i on RED HAT LINUX 5.2.
>>I had the following problem.could some one help me with it.
>>
>>
>>
>>The "dba" group for oracle user was created and I continued with the
>>installation process. The installation process has to be run from the
>>start after the option create database account and filling the fields it
>>
>>asks to locate the file for installation of product or in short call he
>>asks to select oracle product for installation. The first error came was
>>
>>"failed to create unix.prd" file. After locating the file physically
>>copied thru the file manager utility the file unix.prd into the oracle
>>directory where it looks for this file during installation. After this
>>step was executed i had to again run the installer program, every time
>>the oracle installer program is run i had to fill the details again.
>>There was one more error at the product selection set screen this time
>>it could not find the file orainst.vrf in the hard disk. The error msg
>>was "orainst.vrf(0) : FILE_NOT_FOUND while verifying orainst. (no such
>>file or directory). Again i had to locate the file from CD and copy from
>>
>>the CD to the hard disk in the specified directory where the
>>installation kit will be looking for it. After completing this process i
>>
>>had to run again the oracle installer kit. This time it gave an error
>>msg while installing the products the error message was "oraview.vrf(0)
>>FILE_NOT_FOUND while verifying oraview. (no such file or directory)".
>>The file "oraview.vrf" was not there in both the CD's that you sent.
>>Therefore I could not further proceed as this file should be available
>>for proceeding with the installation process.
>>
>>---------------------------------------
>>
>>Thanks
>>jim
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
Received on Thu Aug 12 1999 - 20:14:24 CDT

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