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

i use TERM=vt100.

On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Jaap W. van Dijk wrote:

> 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 Sun Jan 09 2000 - 09:26:27 CST