Re: Oracle 8i install fail on RH 6.1 - how to delete all?

Bob Hartung wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have had a miserable failure to install 8i on a RH 6.1
> box. All compat libs, etc are set up okay. I have tried to
> use the graphical installer for removal however it says that
> there is nothing installed (but it fills up nearly 600 MB).
> Other than the /usr/local directories OraInstall and the
> subdirectories off /u01 [installed in a single directory as
> a test] what do I neet to get off the machine to begin
> clean?
>
> JRE is installed okay.
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Bob

1. Delete everything under $ORACLE_BASE and $ORACLE_HOME (assuming $ORACLE_HOME is under $ORACLE_BASE)
2. Delete /etc/*ora* .e.g: /etc/oratab (Do a ls first to make sure you are not deleting anything else)
3. Delete your Oracle mount points

--
* Installing Oracle8i on RedHat 6.0:
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~jmsalvo/linux/oracle8i.html * DBDependency project:
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~jmsalvo/dbdependency/index.html Received on Wed Feb 09 2000 - 05:21:08 CST