Oracle 8.1.7 and Linux Mandrake 8.1 Howto!

From: Andre Vaupel <avaupel_at_web.de>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:42:08 GMT
Message-ID: <A9D18.715579$tK5.53906@news.easynews.com>

Hi @all!
It´s done now!

I´ve completed my first Oracle 8.1.7 installation at Mandrake Linux 8.1! As you can read in the thread below, i used the following link: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/utils/uoracle0.html

It´s perfectly :-) It´s very fast and use less memory (after the installation).

PHP 4.05-PHP 4.1 works as well with this constallation, don´t forget to use --with-oci8 to enable PHP Oracle support.

Intermedia for fulltextsearch works too...well, at the moment i´m quiet happy.

Hope this posting can help each other too. Cause i tried many docs and the most
of them have erros within the documentation. For a beginner at Oracle it is hard to find.

As i said before...try this documentation and you´re able to install it :-) But read it carefully and line after line!! :-)

Andre,

There are several special procedures, actually, but if you know them everything winds up working OK. Examples of the special procedures include needing to pull in an old version of GLIBC (the Oracle installer works with 2.1, "no more, no less," but Mandrake 8 runs 2.2 currently) and making sure NUMLOCK is turned off (some important buttons in the Oracle installer won't work otherwise!). That NUMLOCK thing cost me an embarrassing amount of work (and time) the first time I tried this.

So what you need to do is documentation from somebody who's "been there, done that." The very good news is that such a document already exists! Check out http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/utils/uoracle0.html#toc1 before starting your installation. I strongly recommend you take the time to read the whole thing, and of course you should supplement the Mandrake-specific material in this document with the Oracle installation documentation.

Good luck!
Chris

Chris Leonard
MCSE, MCDBA, MCT, OCP, CIW
The Database Guy at PPI
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"Andre Vaupel" <avaupel_at_web.de> wrote in message news:I5H%7.45952$474.450861_at_news.easynews.com...
> Hi!
>
> Did someone these kind of installation ?
> Would be nice to know....can i use the documentation
> from Oracle to do this or are there some special tasks
> are needed?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Andre
>
>
Received on Thu Jan 17 2002 - 10:42:08 CST