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

HansF wrote:
>
> 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

Hi,

I *knew* that someone was going to ask that. I didn't check at the time, but I'll try tomorrow. Sorry.

Jim Received on Tue Nov 23 2004 - 21:27:51 CST