Re: Oracle 9i R2 and Red Hat 9 Linux x86

"Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> writes:

> "Phil Britton" <phil_at_phil-britton.com> wrote in message
> news:un0b1hom2.fsf_at_phil-britton.com...
> > "Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> writes:
> >
> > > "Carl" <carl_theblue_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > > news:b7f9cffb.0311111730.2affd6f7_at_posting.google.com...
> > > > Hi Phil,
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for you help ,
> > > > About question no 2 , I bought red had linux 9 unleashed book and it
> > > > comes with 2 CDs of linux , the book does not mention the type ( ie
> > > > prof, AS ,ES and WS ) of linux are on the CDs ,
> > > > So that is why I dont know what type of Linux I have , I thought there
> > > > might me a way to find out.
> > >
> > > If it's supplied free with a book, then it's just boring old
> 'workstation'
> > > Red Hat 9, not an 'enterprise' or 'advanced server' version (since they
> cost
> > > huge amounts of cash). It's the same version as you can/could download
> for
> > > free from redhat.com.
> > >
> > > Oracle will still run on it, with a bit of arm-twisting. See
> www.dizwell.com
> > > for info on how.
> > >
> >
> > If it's only on two CDs it doesn't sound like it's full distribution
> > of RH9. That normally comes on three CDs.
>
> It's the full(ish) distribution. The ones you get with books tend to miss
> out a lot of the internationalising stuff that comes on disk 3. But the two
> disk sets provided still enable a fully functional RH9 install, particularly
> from the viewpoint of installing Oracle.
>
> >Which means that there could
> > be some important stuff missing.
>
> Not really. Not as far as the Oracle install is concerned, anyway.
>
> Regards
> HJR
>
>
> >The cheapest way to get a full distro
> > on 3CDs is to get Pink Tie Linux. This is exactly the same as RH9 but
> > with Redhat's copyrighted material removed. I've had Oracle 9iR2
> > installed and running on this (for educational purposes only :-) and
> > as long as you follow some of the instructions that are around the
> > web, like Howard's, you should be OK. As I seem to recall I had to
> > edit the make file at the link step, as a lot of people mention, and
> > had to create a file "/etc/rac" (I think) to get dbca to run. I didn't
> > keep notes when I did it so sorry if this is a bit vague
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > Phil
> >
> >

I stand (or rather, sit) corrected. I've never bothered checking whats on the third CD, or the first two for that matter:-) I know that I've always needed it while doing an install.

cheers

Phil Received on Wed Nov 12 2003 - 10:22:07 CST