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

"Dusan Bolek" <pagesflames_at_usa.net> wrote in message news:1e8276d6.0311140151.37ce4013_at_posting.google.com...
> "Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message
news:<3fb35ebe$0$13968$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...
>
> > > Sorry, I didn't read the paper, because is quite big (7.2MB is quite a
> > > lot for 79 pages).
> >
> > Lots of screenshots.
>
> Are you using the latest specification of PDF? You could get much
> better compression ratio for pictures and in general everything is
> much smalller. PDF document can be now even one fifth of size of
> document created according to previous specifications.

I do actually know Acrobat quite well.

>
> > > Isn't better just to suggest usage of RedHat 8, on which you can
> > > install Oracle 9.2 out of the box with no "twisting" at all?
> >
> > That's not quite true, either. RH8 fails with an error on ins_ctx.env
which
> > requires some (minor) hacking to fix.
>
> Yes, maybe. Probably no one is using all option that came with Oracle
> Server. I didn't use Context so I didn't encountered this problem.
> However, even beginner can install Oracle 9.2 on RedHat 8 with no
> previous Oracle experiences, just clicking on colourfull wizard and he
> will have a basic working installation after that (hopefully).
> Probably easiest from OS/ORA combination to install, if we're talking
> about non-WIN environment. Mandrake is almost the same, just in
> default OS security template there is no gcc available for non-root
> user. This must be changed before installation, that could create
> problems for beginners.
>
> > But whatever. The point is, people asked a lot about RH9, so that's what
got
> > written about.
>
> I was not suggesting that your paper is useless, just recommendation
> of maybe easier way how to get running Oracle in Linux env.

I realised that.

Regards
HJR Received on Fri Nov 14 2003 - 04:24:25 CST