Re: Does anyone run Linux 8i or Redhat 7.0?

I have 8.1.6. That's what comes with this book. I think the problem has more to do with Redhat 7.

Preston

"Victor Ortega" <vor+@pitt.edu> wrote in message news:Pine.GSO.3.96L.1010111185231.10865O-100000_at_unixs4.cis.pitt.edu...
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Preston Crawford wrote:
> > Sorry for the crosspost, but I'm trying to learn Oracle on Linux and I
 had a
> > problem with installation last night and I was wondering if anyone here
 has
> > installed Oracle 8i on Redhat 7.0. I bought a book last night titled
 Oracle
> > 8i for Linux Starter Kit. The directions helped, but I still got stuck.
 I
> > was able to get through most of the install, but when it went to install
 the
> > default database it choked and said it couldn't connect to the server or
> > something like that, and thus couldn't create the default DB. I tried to
 log
> > in as System and it kept throwing errors. So I was wondering, before I
 dive
> > back into this tonight, if anyone has a link to a mini-howto or
 something
> > that might help me get past some common mistakes that are made with this
> > configuration. Any help or advice would be appreciated.
>
> I had quite a few problems installing Oracle 8.1.5 on a RedHat 6.2
> system (Intel); the database, in particular, never installed. I heard
> from some co-workers that the 8.1.5 installer (and probably the
> version as a whole) had some major bugs, so I just deleted it and
> installed a clean copy of 8.1.6. It installed flawlessly, database
> and all. Give that a shot, if you can get it.
>
> Victor
>
Received on Thu Jan 11 2001 - 21:23:41 CST