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Re: Oracle 8.0.5 on Red Hat 6.0

From: Mark <mrbaker_at_removethisbitfreeuk.com>
Date: 2000/08/08
Message-ID: <Tw_j5.869$7v2.110112@nnrp3.clara.net>#1/1

Thanks for the help - very comprehensive - and a very quick reply!

I'll set to it now.

Regards

Mark

"Ronald Kuczek" <ronald_at_breitenbach.pl> wrote in message news:8mprv9$d9o$1_at_news.netcologne.de...
>
> "Mark Baker" <mrbaker_at_freeuk.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:n1Zj5.814$7v2.98570_at_nnrp3.clara.net...
> > About 3 or 4 months ago I downloaded a tar file of Oracle 8.0.5 for
 Linux.
> >
> > I've just got round to trying to install it and have got as far as
> > un-tarring the
> > contents to the $ORACLE_HOME area:
> >
> > /u01/app/oracle/product/8.0.5
> >
> > and all the usual oracle directories are present.
> >
> > I've already set up the oracle user, dba group and the environment
> > variables.
> >
> > The /etc/oratab has manually been created - owned by oracle too, empty.
> >
> > So far so good. But what now?
> >
> > I tried switching to $ORACLE_HOME/orainst and ran ./orainst but it keeps
> > asking me to mount a disk. There is no disk - it came from a "tarball".
> >
> > The documentation seems to have a gap here so where do I go from here?
> > Any help greatly appreciated.
> > Thanks -
> > Mark
> >
> >
> Hi Mark !
> I have Oracle 8.0.5 on Linux SuSe 6.0 with kernel 2.0.36 running , I'll
 try
> to help you:
> 1. You have to download and apply glibcpatch (look on
> http://technet.oracle.com )
> 2. Copy you install files anywhere, not in $ORACLE_HOME directory
> 3. Delete /etc/oratab file. Instead set enviroment variable
> ORATAB_FAIL to true.
> 4. Set variables ORACLE_HOME,ORACLE_OWNER,
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH (to $ORACLE_HOME/lib).
> Add $ORACLE_HOME/bin to PATH.
> 5. Start orainst script from you installation bin directory and follow
> instructions. (possible you have to set execute privilege on all files in
> bin installation directory).
> Select option Install Software *do not create database objects* !!!
> 6. After installation run script root.sh .
> 7. Unset ORATAB_FAIL variable.
> 8. Run one more time orainst, this time select option
> Install Software Create Database Objects.
> 9. After installation try to run sqlplus system/manager -
> you should have connection to your database.
> 10. If you want to shutdown your server don't forget to shutdown oracle:
> svrmgrl
> connect internal
> shutdown immediate.
> After new start you have to start database:
> svrmgrl
> connect internal
> startup.
> You can start/shutdown oracle automatically with script in
> /etc/rc.d . For example search howto.oracle in linux documentation.
>
> Best regards
> Rony
>
>
>
>
>
Received on Tue Aug 08 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT

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