Re: Installing 9i on Linux

Hello! There is an article on installing Oracle9i on Linux (SuSE) published at http://www.sdoug.org/. Look at the second entry in the right frame. There is a link there to the actual article.

Does anyone have any plans for posting screen shots of the installation process?

"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr_at_www.com> wrote in message news:<3b935d81_at_news.iprimus.com.au>...
> Hi Samuel,
>
> Thanks for the post. I absolutely agree with you that my Linux skills are
> pathetic, and that I should invest some time in developing
> them -unfortunately,
> I have to teach the 9i New Features course in 4 weeks' time, so time is of
> the
> essence, and that particular luxury will have to wait! Given that I'm
> teaching
> Oracle, not Linux, I reckoned that if anything could be done to get me over
> the
> initial humps, it would help (after all, we teach all our courses on
> Solaris, so
> I'm not a complete Unix neophyte).
>
> Actually, as you may have seen, the thing is now up and running. The
> killers for me were: what is the password of the "oracle" user that SuSe so
> kindly creates for you? That was fixed with Dave's help: "passwd oracle"
> lets me set it anything I like.
>
> Creating a .bashrc to get the PATH and other environment variables defined
> on
> logon was new to me, but I knew something like it needed to be done.
>
> And there are only two kernel parameters that needed to be changed (this was
> a
> fresh Linux installation out of the box), and the Oracle doco is quite good
> on
> explaining how to do that.
>
> Fiddling around with /etc/group and so on is something I demo on the DBA
> course
> to set up O/S authentication, so that was no particular drama, either.
>
> Wierdly, I didn't need to configure any additional swap partitions (but
> then,
> when I installed Linux, I gave it my entire 60Gb hard disk to use, so maybe
> that
> averted the problem).
>
> I'm going to do it all again next week, from scratch, documenting it with
> copious screenshots, because it really wasn't that hard in the end, and
> wading
> through the Oracle Documentation makes it look much worse than it actually
> is.
> Until we are all Linux experts, I think there's a need for idiots guides!
>
> Anyway: thanks again for the post. Take care.
> HJR
>
> "Samuel H Roseman" <calliesam_at_ev1.net> wrote in message
> news:3B9306CE.624BE9D3_at_ev1.net...
> > "Howard J. Rogers" wrote:
> >
> > > Being a simple-minded Windows user, I'm having great O/S difficulty
> trying
> > > to follow the Oracle guide to installing 9i on Linux.
> > >
> > > Basically, I fall at the first hurdle: "Steps to Perform as the Root
> User -
> > > Create Mount Points". And then it goes downhill thereafter.
> > >
> > > I know the basic mount command, but if I try "mount /u01
> /some_directory",
> > > it doesn't work, so the subtleties of its syntax must be escaping me.
> Any
> > > suggestions for how to get this working, and what my mount point should
> > > actually reference?
> > >
> > > There's also the slight problem of creating the Oracle User... first, it
> > > appears to exist already, right after a fresh SuSe 7.1 installation,
> which
> > > surprised me somewhat... but if I delete that, then use useradd -g
> dba -p
> > > password oracle, I can't log in as "oracle". Again, am I missing
> something
> > > (well, clearly I am, but you know what I mean).
> > >
> > > Any help from someone who's pulled this installation off would be
> enormously
> > > appreciated. And whilst I can muddle my way around Linux, "muddle" is
> the
> > > operative word, so think "Windows User" when posting any advice.
> > >
> > > If all else fails, I shall be lugging my PC back into the office on
> Tuesday,
> > > and the Oracle Unix gurus can deal with it then... but I hate to admit
> > > defeat quite so early on in the piece.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > HJR
> >
> > In all honesty, I believe you need to be more familiar with Linux or Unix
> in
> > general.
> > The instructions mention changing semaphore value in the /proc filesystem.
> > It mention creating various groups (oinstall, and can't remember the
> others).
> > It also mentions something about oratab in /etc.
> > In addition, you may need to create additional swap partitions for the
> install.
> >
> > I ended up creating 4 additional swap partitions for a total of 5.
> > I saw where someone believe this is due to a memory leak.
> > In summary, if you are not remotely familiar with...
> > 1. /proc
> > 2. /etc and the configuration files therein (services, inittab, etc.).
> > 3. /etc/init.d startup and shutdown scripts
> > 4. Basic Linux commands such as mount, umount, cd, grep, locate, mkdir,
> rm,
> > etc.
> > ...you will most like run into a road block.
> >
> > Take the time to learn a little Unix/Linux. It won't be too painful.
> >
> > Sam
> >
> > P.S.
> > I've got 9.0.1 running on my desktop.
> >
Received on Mon Sep 03 2001 - 15:00:29 CDT