Re: Recommended Linux for Oracle RAC, Oracle apps, Ias

From: Glen A Stromquist <glen_stromquist_at_nospam.yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 16:38:27 GMT
Message-ID: <7Estb.69949$Ws6.10679@edtnps84>

Michael Heiming wrote:
> In alt.os.linux Howard J. Rogers <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote:
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>><linuxquestion_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>>>Will Redhat professional workstation work?

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> You could make it working, as almost any other distro.
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>>>How about Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1 Standard ED.  Only $210.
>>>How about Mandrake?  Linux 9.2 is only $7.00 at Linux Central.
>>>Is there a place to buy Redhat Enterprise or Advanced
>>>server cheap?  Or download for free?

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> Not that I'm aware of, at least not legal.
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>>Red Hat is good. If you don't want to shell out for the biggie Enterprise
>>stuff (and there's no need to, just to practice RAC), my vote would go (I
>>think) to Red Hat 8.0, but Red Hat 9.0 is workable.

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> AFAIR you need the proper gcc version to even install Oracle probably. The one
> that comes with RH 8.0/9.0 is just too new.
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> RH AS/ES 2.1 don't come with lvm, making it unusable as db server, AS/ES 3.0
> come with lvm, however I'm still waiting for the install media, can't comment
> on those.
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> Oracle runs fine on SuSE SLES8, but you don't get this enterprise distro for
> free and you need a special account to be even able to download patches.
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> Best idea, get someone you know to make you a copy of the SLES media kit
> and the patches. While this might not be legal, I wouldn't care much if
> this is really for private educational purposes only!
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> Good luck
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Awhile back Redhat had a "developers edition" of their advanced server(or something like that) for about $50.00, I bought it but could never get it to run ok on a compaq PIII professional workstation so I went back to my tried & true SuSE 7.3 pro desktop.

I've done installs on SuSE and Redhat, SuSE was by far the most "painless" install as it already has a lot of the gruntwork done for you ie. Oracle account already setup etc.. and the orarun.rpm does a real slick job of setting kernal params etc. if you dont like messing with them yourself (like me). SuSE also has a pretty active mailing list that often has questions like yours on it, and its free to join. SuSE also has LVM and despite it being a bit obstinate to setup sometimes, it works, I have one oracle install using it.

The trouble is, there is no downloadable iso image, but you can install it free via ftp I think, and I heard that if you dig enough there is a japanese ISO image on their ftp site, and when you go to install it you just pick english instead of the default japanese, but I cant verify this.

have fun! Received on Sat Nov 15 2003 - 10:38:27 CST