Re: Installing Oracle 11.5.8 on Mandrake

Frank,

Don't you like a challenge then ? Besides, Mandrake is now the most popular flavour of Linux.

Also, installation instructions were followed and kernel settings changed :-)

As a further FYI, I figured out a way to work around this issue. "Frank" <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net> wrote in message news:3EF4B054.7000308_at_netscape.net...
> Dave Williams wrote:
> > Has anyone had any success in doing this ? I'm trying but I keep
running
> > into the same problem when trying to create the VIS control file.
> >
> > It seems that program: adcrdb.sh fails due to an ORA-12547:TNS:Lost
> > connection error. Strange thing is that I can run the adcrdb.sh
manually
> > and it works fine, but there is no way to get the installer to continue.
> > You can either abort the install or retry. Selecting Retry goes all the
way
> > back to disc 1. The problem occurs at disc 11.
> >
> > I know that other people have had this same problem on other platforms
but
> > so far I have not seen any solution. There must be one.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
>
> Beats me why you want to install 11.5 on a non supported platform.
> There are Linux version, that _are_ supported, you know...
> Especially with a complex thing like EBS.
>
> Apart from that, I do not have the answer in detail, apart from
> the experience that such errors frequently point to not following
> the installation instructions - especially kernel parameters that
> need to be changed.
>
> --
> Regards, Frank van Bortel
>
Received on Sun Jun 22 2003 - 19:41:05 CDT