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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> Installing Oracle on uncertified Linux, like Debian, Download Red Hat, Gentoo ?
Evening Howard,
I would like to add my 0.06 AUD = £0.02 :
>> 5. Download the three cpio files from technet.oracle.com, and save
them in
>> the / directory (still logged in as root!!). Then:
>> $ cpio -idmv < Linux9i_Disk1.cpio
Because I had my downloaded files on 3 CDs, and they were simply CD copies of the original download files, rather than have three CDs worth of 'extra' data taking up room on my disc, I did this :
cd /oradata/tmp slap in CD 1 to /mnt/dvd cat /mnt/dvd/Linux91_Disc1.cpio.gz | gunzip | cpio -idmv repeat for discs 2 and 3.
This way, you can avoid having the cpio'd file and its un-cpio'd contents all taking up disc space. (I think I made up a couple of new words there !)
>> 6. Log in as Oracle. Get your environment variables correct. Edit the
>> .bashrc file in your home directory so it reads:
<SNIP>
>>
PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:/opt/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/u
sr/X
>> 11R6/bin:/usr/local/java/bin:.
Yes, make sure that ORACLE_HOME is on the path before the current stuff. I didn't and found out that Mandrake Linux 9.0 has an rman command of it's own ! (Reverse Man - reads man pages and writes out source files to generate same !)
In addition, I needed to set /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax to 50% of my total RAM size otherwise dbca bombs out unable to connect to shared memory segment at about 48% of creating a new database. Because I have 640 Mb of RAM, I needed to set SHMMAX to 320 Mb (in bytes) as follows :
cat 335544320 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
and add the command to the rc.local file as well.
Cheers,
Norman.
Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com -------------------------------------Received on Mon Mar 24 2003 - 06:55:20 CST
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