Problems getting orainst to run (Oracle 8.0.5 on Linux 2.0.36)

Hi there,

I've got a question about getting orainst to run, and about the value of TERM and ORACLE_TERM (by the way, is there a FAQ somewhere that gives answers to the kind of questions I am about to ask?).

I've got a copy of an Oracle 8.0.5 on Linux installation CD-ROM. After the setting up phase I'm now getting at the step where you have to switch to directory orainst on the CD and perform (as specified in the installation manual)

./orainst

First this wouldn't start ('Permission denied') because all the files on the CD had only the read bit set, but I've found out you can fix that by specifying mode=0555 in the mount command. When I tried again it responded that it couldn't find the file or directory! I could still start it with sh though.

When I did the latter, I got the message that there were funny tokens in the file. This was the same problem I had with creating file oratab with script oratab.sh. I solved that problem by copying oratab.sh to /tmp and changing all the return/newline-pairs in the file to newline only. Running the modified oratab.sh worked fine.

I could do the same with script orainst, but will it not self run other scripts from the CD and run into the same problem? Or should I, for every script for which I run into this problem, copy this script to /tmp, remove the returns and run I from there? Can I restart orainst, no matter at what point it fails?

This being asked, I've got another question concerning the TERM and ORACLE_TERM environment variable.
After installation of Linux TERM has the value 'linux'. This as not acceptable for orainst. Reading the Oracle installation manual, the choice seems to be between '368' for Linux in normal mode, and '386x' for running under X. Can I change 'linux' without problems into either? What value should TERM have, what value ORACLE_TERM? IF I use a value at installation time should it be the same value at run time? If I choose '386' now, can Oracle only be run in Linux normal mode? If I choose '386x' can Oracle only be run under X?

Jaap. Received on Sat Jan 08 2000 - 03:00:57 CST