Re: Installing Oracle 10g on Linux -- OUCH!!

HansF wrote:
> Jeroen van den Broek wrote:
>
>>
>> Hm, sounds interesting.
>> Do you perhaps know whether this ORARUN package is also included
>> in SLES8?
>
> Yes, it is available for SLES8. Last known sighting was from the
> http://www.suse.com.oracle >> 'Support Matrix' and click on the
> oracle-suse version of interest.
>
> orarun is basically a package that runs a lot of the niggly setup
> steps that we normally need to perform. One of the biggest reasons
> why I like SuSE for Oracle.
>
> As an aside: one thing to remember is that SLES8 is an
> implementation of the United Linux 1.0 spec and thus orarun should
> work on any UL1 distro. (UL was never intended to be a product or
> distro, but a spec to which the consortium members could base their
> distro.)
>
> /Hans

Thanks very much, Hans!

Now I have to check whether I can use this with Oracle10g on zLinux, which is essentially Suse SLES8 running under zVM on IBM's zSeries.

Thanks again.

-- 
Jeroen