Thank you so much! This is exactly what I needed. I suppose you can tell
by my question that I'm not an HP-UX expert.
Richard Lloyd <rkl_at_connect.org.uk> wrote in message
news:FLIKxv.1rL_at_csc.liv.ac.uk...
> In article <8154m8$tj$1_at_news.duke.edu>,
> "jennetta" <jennetta_at_hotmail.com> writes:
> > A while back I posted a request for help with getting the oracle
installer
> > to start. After issuing the ./orainst command, it just seemed to hang
until
> > I killed the session.
>
> This is probably because you're running orainst directly from the CD-ROM
> and the program rather bizarre decides that it needs to lock the CD-ROM.
> Hence, you need rpc.lockd and rpc.statd running prior to doing all that
> pfs_mount nonsense in the CD-ROM mounting instructions.
>
> I actually copied the CD-ROM onto a hard disk and ran orainst from there -
> useful for the 11.00 install of 8.0.5 because the installer for that was
> actually faulty and I had to hack the hard disk copy of the installer to
> get it to work !
>
> Richard K. Lloyd, E-mail: rkl_at_connect.org.uk
> Connect, WWW: http://www.connect.org.uk/
> Liverpool University,
> Merseyside, England,
> Great Britain.
Received on Sat Nov 20 1999 - 16:54:33 CST
