Re: Newbie needs help. Studying for OCA.

Alex Reid wrote:
[...]
> I have downloaded an educational copy of Solaris 9. I guess I might as
> well learn how to administer oracle on unix, seeing as how all the job
> postings I see never mention a windows infrastructure & always mention
> unix (particularly AIX)
>
> Look at me! I have zero unix or oracle experience, but here I am trying
> to get a job for it. I guess that's what almost a year of unemployment &
> running out of insurance will drive you to do.
>
> Wonderful! Now my DVD-RW will not recognize blank media. Not that I
> completely understand what to do with these 4 .iso files I just
> downloaded from Sun. What a noob I am!

Alex,

Oracle on Solaris, an excellent choice ;-)

With the skills as Solaris admin and Oracle dba there will be a lot of very well paid jobs for you out there!

A tip for installing Solaris (make sure you download the correct version, sparc vs. x86): download only the software 1 of 2 and software 2 of 2 cdrom, the other ones you don't need. Boot and install from software 1 of 2. The install is pretty self-explanatory and straighforward (for either sparc as x86 platform).

Greetz,
Frank Received on Fri Jan 21 2005 - 10:29:15 CST