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Re: Building a test server

From: Niall Litchfield <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 12:37:11 +0100
Message-ID: <408e45e7$0$20507$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex.net>


I really struggled with a 10g db and dbconsole in 256mb ram - of course this could be down to being grossly inept.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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"Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message
news:408e44bb$0$20085$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au...

> Johan Louwers wrote:
> > I am planning to build a Oracle10G RDBMS "test" server to use while
> > learning and trying to understand more of 10G. This is a private
> > project what I will do at home.... So I have to build a server...
> > cheap.... What do you think I should use so you can work with the
> > system,.... there is no need fore high speed just a learning and
> > trying box....
> >
> > I would like to run it with RED-HAT.....
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Johan Louwers.
> >
>
> Well, you don't specify *which* Red Hat, but as it's a home project,
> presumably Advanced Server is out of the picture... in which case, go
> with Red Hat 9 (if it's still available) or Fedora. Both work fine with
> 10g, and it's an easy install (though step-by-step instructions can be
> found at www.dizwell.com -Faq, basic, Oracle on Linux).
>
> For the machine, a couple of Gigabytes of free disk space, and at least
> 256MB of RAM are all you need.
>
> Regards
> HJR
Received on Tue Apr 27 2004 - 06:37:11 CDT

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