Re: minimalistic oracle installation?

On Apr 2, 6:52 pm, Dirk Diggler <dirkdigg..._at_nowhere.org> wrote:
> hello,
>
> my computer is an old fashioned dual PIII 450MHz, and I was wondering if
> it is possible to install minimalistic oracle instance which main
> purpose would be to serve as dba learning environment.
>
> I am not much considered about the speed and efficiency/newest version
> of the product in this case, but achieving reasonable usage
> parameters/waiting response times would be nice :-).
>
> I went through posts @google usenet archive and saw that some people
> were running oracle 8i on their PII laptops and similar machines, but
> unfortunately there were not much details about how they did it, what
> could be switched off or reduced in resources, and to what limit.
>
> I would greatly appreciate any suggestions and recommended settings as
> well as links to documents, web pages, installation procedures etc. or
> personal experience on the subject in question.
>
> thanks,
> DD

That old machine will work fine with oracle the more memory the better though.

512meg would be ok, more would be better. If necessary you can get it running with less than that. Received on Mon Apr 02 2007 - 20:14:54 CDT