Re: oracle on raw devices

From: Jim Kennedy <kennedy-family_at_home.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 12:52:28 GMT
Message-ID: <gOyd6.339584$U46.10410485@news1.sttls1.wa.home.com>

You can't install the application on a raw partition and you wouldn't gain anything by doing so. (actually make the whole thing difficult to maintain if you could). You can install a tablespace on a raw partition, but not more than one.
Jim

"Maciej Kwapulinski" <pikpok_at_univ.gda.pl> wrote in message news:3A76FAEC.19572477_at_univ.gda.pl...
>
>
> I successfuly installed oracle8i enterprise edition 8.1.7 on raw partition
> (solaris5.8)
>
> I would like to install it on raw partition
>
> I'm asking You because documentation supported isn't clear enough for
> me (no examples)
>
> That's what I did :
>
> i created 2 raw partitions on my RAID:
>
> /dev/dsk/c2t0d0s3, size :5GB
>
> /dev/dsk/c2t0d0s4 size :5GB
>
> oracle $ set
> ....
> ....
> ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle
> ORACLE_HOME=${ORACLE_BASE}/product/8.17
> DBCA_RAW_CONFIG=/export//home/oracle/mapping_ascii
>
> oracle $ more $DBCA_RAW_CONFIG
> /u01 /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s3
> /u02 /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s4
>
> oracle $ /cdrom/oracle8i/runInstaller &
>
> from root i did :
> root # ln -s /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s3 /u01
> root # ln -s /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s4 /u02
>
> I changed owner and group to oracle/oinstall
>
> Installer pointed the detination directory as /u01/app/oracle
> but during instalation process it changed on /tmp/u01/app/oracle and
> didn't let me install on raw partition
> what am i doing wrong ?
>
> help me please
>
> greetings
> Maciek
>
Received on Tue Jan 30 2001 - 06:52:28 CST