Re: Installing Oracle 9i on Solaris 9 from CD

From: HansF <news.hans_at_telus.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 03:27:13 GMT
Message-ID: <lcTod.15310$l65.15051@clgrps13>

ohaya wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We'd been trying to install Oracle 9i on a Solaris 9 machine from CD,
> and were finally able to get it working. However, one thing that we
> found (that wasn't in the info that we had) was that, as root, we had to
> umount the cdrom drive, "chmod 777" the cdrom, then mount it again.
> Once we did that we were able to execute runInstaller ok.
>
> If anyone knows, I'm kind of curious about exactly WHY the "chmod 777"
> was necessary?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jim

I assume cdrom is the mount point. What were the perms & ownership for cdrom before the chmod?

/Hans Received on Tue Nov 23 2004 - 21:27:13 CST

Re: Installing Oracle 9i on Solaris 9 from CD - Why 'chmod' necessry?