Re: 10g installation fails on red hat release 9

SP wrote:
> I was trying to install 10g in my laptop and failed with the messages below.
> Is there a way to get around this or I'll have to get Linux ES/AS 2.1, ES/AS
> 3 or UnitedLinux 1.0 to get it installed as mentioned in the installation
> documentation?
>
> Thanks,
>
> SP
>
> [oracle_at_localhost Disk1]$ uname -a
>
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.20-8 #1 Thu Mar 13
>
> 17:54:28 EST 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> Now I run the installer and boom
>
> oracle_at_localhost Disk1]$ ./runInstaller
>
> Starting Oracle Universal Installer...
>
> Checking installer requirements...
>
> Checking operating system version: must be redhat-2.1,
>
> UnitedLinux-1.0 or redhat-3
>
> Failed <<<<
>
> Exiting Oracle Universal Installer, log for this
>
> session can be found at
>
> /tmp/OraInstall2004-06-03_11-46-48PM/installActions2004-06-03_11-46-48PM.log
>
>

Try ./runInstaller -help; one of the options is something like -ignoreSysPrereqs - it will not abort when tests fail.

See Howards of Werners excellent manuals about installing: http://www.puschitz.com and http://www.dizwell.com

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Regards,
Frank van Bortel