Re: Installation/configuration issue

Sorry for the lack of info.

I've been trying to get it running on Debian. Just installed Debian from the web a week ago so I assume I've got the latest and greatest code. So late and great indeed that I had to go and get some older gcc libraries that Oracle was requesting.

I have indeed thought about running Oracle on a supported distro. In fact, I may just say To Hell With Linux (for the DB server) and run it under XP. But it would have been nice to get it working with Debian.

Thanks for your time on this...

alan

"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:ihPL9.5258$jM5.15419_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
>
> "alan" <alanbrown_at_pacbell.net> wrote in message
> news:XbPL9.2222$525.489_at_newssvr19.news.prodigy.com...
> > Thanks.
> >
> > I'm in the process of reinstalling. But I'm doing it on an unsupported
> > Linux platform so I'm flying, if not blind, then at least a little
> > near-sighted.
>
> OK, let's be blunt. What EXACT platform are you installing on. I tried
> asking subtly before, but it didn't go anywhere. I only ask, because there
> are websites aplently out there for installs onto weird and wonderful
Linux
> distros that take you every step of the way (not that I know every one of
> them!).
>
> >
> > Besides. The install worked fine.
>
> Er, no it didn't. You had a problem with a missing file, if I recall
> correctly. Which you patched up by creating a symbolic link. Which isn't
> ever required in real life, and therefore it was a bodged install; your
> configuration problems stem directly from the fact that it wasn't a
textbook
> install.
>
> >It's the configuration that's killing me
> > (that sounds a little like the old adage about encryption...
Encryption's
> > easy. It's decryption that's a pain).
>
> Get the install sorted without recourse to workarounds and dodgy fixes,
and
> your configuration will be fine.
>
> > But sometimes all that's needed is a reminder that it's not
> rocket-science.
> > Just follow the instructions.
>
> Er, no. Not if you're doing on an unsupported distro. That's why knowing
> what exactly you're doing this on is so important. If it's unsupported,
> there will be quirks that the instructions don't cover (but not one
> requiring the creation of a symbolic link, IIRC).
>
> >But how do the rocket scientists encourage
> > themselves?
>
> They don't need encouragement. They are totally deranged people that like
to
> experiment until they get it right. It's the fact of getting right that is
> reward enough!!
>
> >That it's not brain surgery I suppose. But the brain surgeons
> > have simply got to admit that there stuff's hard. No 2 ways about it.
>
> I suppose it's out of the question to suggest that you could make life for
> yourself infinitely easier were you simply to install a supported distro??
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Regards
> HJR
>
> [snip]
>
>
Received on Wed Dec 18 2002 - 22:15:45 CST