Re: Oracle 10G - Been There Seen That! <- posting just because of happiness and joy

From: Lang Sharpe <lang_at_myself.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 12:00:16 +1000
Message-ID: <40429931$0$41082$c30e37c6@lon-reader.news.telstra.net>

When you mount the cd, you need to tell it to allow execution of files. You can use 'mount <blah> -o exec' or edit /etc/fstab and add exec to the list of options.

Lang

FC wrote:

>
> "FC" <flavio_at_tin.it> wrote in message
> news:IpN%b.47049$IT2.1324909_at_news4.tin.it...

>>
>> "Dusan Bolek" <pagesflames_at_usa.net> wrote in message
>> news:1e8276d6.0402270745.5029274a_at_posting.google.com...
>> > After one of the most painful instalations of Oracle in my history, I
>> > was successful and now I'm running Oracle 10.1.0.2 on Linux x86. It
>> > took me almost a week to get it, to install it and five minutes to
>> > find out the first bug in the SQL engine.
>> > I was able to install this on Fedora Core 1 with no tweaking at all,
>> > so thumbs up both for Oracle and also for Linux community. Instalation
>> > process was futher simplified from Oracle 9i and also one disc release
>> > is great (even if some important stuff is on Companion CD).
>> > DBCA was rewritten with a brand new design, but is as buggy as always
>> > been, so no big change here. I wonder if some day, maybe when 14L will
>> > be released, I will be able to create a new database just using DBCA
>> > and with no errors.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Dusan Bolek
>> >
>>
>> Dusan, I think you should quickly move to a decent and stable OS like
>> Windows XP, trust me...
>> :-)
>>
>> By the way, how big turned out to be the installation?
>> I've seen the requirements and before I can proceed I must find some

> space,

>> I don't have all the gigabytes they claim.
>> I just want to install a test environment, 3 gigabytes and a half are way
>> too much, did you manage to keep it below 2GBs?
>>
>> Bye,
>> Flavio
>>

>
>
> Further to my last message,
> I managed to install 10g yesterday evening on Linux RedHat 9, the only
> troubles I had were just before installing anything.
> For some reason I fail to understand, runInstaller returned a "permission
> denied" error when installing from cd.
> As I was just fed up with Linux whims (I have been struggling with my Sony
> Vaio for almost a month in pursue of the right drivers, kernel upgrades,
> patches and so on), I copied the cd content on the hard drive and voila'.
> I followed step by step Oracle's quick installation guide for Linux x86
> and the only hacking required (as detailed in the excellent site of Werner
> Puschitz http://www.puschitz.com) was to make believe the installer to be
> running on top of Red Hat Enterprise Release 3.
> After changing the contents of redhat-release file, everything went on
> smoothly and I had my started db up and running in less than 20 minutes.
> A completely different (and much better) experience than installing 9i on
> RH9 which took hours the last time.
>
> So, I don't know what will come out next from 10g itself, but at least the
> installation was painless.
> Now I just would like to know what's wrong with that damned runInstaller
> from cd...
>
> I still have to install the companion stuff though.
>
> Bye,
> Flavio
Received on Sun Feb 29 2004 - 20:00:16 CST