Re: oracle9i too big?

wangbin wrote:

> Hi
>
> I install 9.0.1 on my desktop sun ultra5. I try to only install the
> basic options I need. The size is about 2G, which is huge. Then I
> search files whose size is bigger than 10M. Ammongst them, I think the
> following are useless to me. Let's see the two *.dfj, the total size
> of them is 600M. After backup, I remove them. The database looks fine.
>
> 351656000 ./9.0.1/assistants/dbca/templates/Data_Warehouse.dfj
> 247842427 ./9.0.1/assistants/dbca/templates/Transaction_Processing.dfj
> 13953939 ./9.0.1/ord/Annotator/media_data/oow_annotator.mov
> 55180902 ./9.0.1/demo/schema/sales_history/sh_sales.dat
> 37766593 ./9.0.1/ctx/data/enlx/droldUS.dat
> 23024986 ./9.0.1/ctx/data/frlx/droldF.dat
>
> The following are my questions.
> 1. What are those files for?
> 2. Is it possible to avoid from installing them? If possible, how?
> 3. What is the smallest size of 9i, if I only need to basic database
> functions (no Apache, tuning package, OEM, ...)? (I remember 8.0.5 was
> only 300M)
>
> Thanks,
> Bin

You can easily pare the installation down to between 800 and 1000M by deleting these files as well as all of the samples, demos, docs, gifs, html, etc.

Daniel Morgan Received on Tue Jul 30 2002 - 10:03:53 CDT