"Wolfram Roesler" <wr_at_grp.de> wrote in message
news:Xns94839BDE63372wrgrpde_at_130.133.1.4...
> "Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in
> news:401c960d$0$29131$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au:
>
> > I would like to offer $5000 (aussie dollars, that is, which I realise
> > makes this as valuable as a Zimbabwean tobacco farm in a drought) to
> > the first person that can produce an install of Oracle for Linux that
> > works with the mere insertion of a CD. Said install must work with all
> > and any Linux distributions (it's all the same operating system, after
> > all, isn't it?). It must be as automatic as the, cough, Windows
> > install is.
>
> ROTFL, the last time we installed 9i on Windows it took at least
> three TARs and as many reinstalls to get it to run. Just try to
> use an install directory like c:\program files\oracle9 and have
> fun.
Hmmm I could see why one might do this. On the other hand if one just
inserts the CD on windows and accepts the defaults for any options that you
wish to include then the install is pretty idiot proof, I must admit I don't
like offering to put the binaries on the drive with the most free space
(that is where my datafiles are going thank you) but that is a minor
quibble.
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
Received on Mon Feb 02 2004 - 08:41:32 CST
