Re: Oracle Enterprise Linux installation problem
From: Shakespeare <whatsin_at_xs4all.nl>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:22:36 +0200
Message-ID: <4a39cf1e$0$189$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>
John Hurley schreef:
> On Jun 17, 5:30 pm, student4life <student4li..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You really do not have enough space with 20 gig on D to install both
> an OS and oracle software and get a database up and running
> adequately.
>
> You just might be able to get it running ... perhaps ... if you really
> know what you are doing.
>
> It's pretty dangerous doing the dual boot thing unless you are pretty
> knowledgeable ... a better choice might be getting a separate drive
> and putting just the other drive in your laptop while you are
> experimenting. You are less likely to shoot yourself in the foot that
> way.
>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:22:36 +0200
Message-ID: <4a39cf1e$0$189$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>
John Hurley schreef:
> On Jun 17, 5:30 pm, student4life <student4li..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello, >> >> I followed instructions inhttp://www.oracle-base.com/articles/linux/OracleEnterpriseLinux5Insta.... >> After clicking on "next" in step 5, I got the following error message: >> >> "Could not allocate requested partitions: >> Partitioning failed: Could not allocate partitions as primary >> partitions. >> Not enough space left to create partition for /boot." >> >> My laptop consists of Window XP Home installed on C drive which has >> about 70G free, and a partitioned, empty (no OS installed) D drive >> which has about 20G free, and a backup "RECOVERY" E drive previously >> partitioned by Dell. I was hopping to get a dialog box asking for >> selection of the correct drive to install 'nux in during the >> installation process and at that point I would select drive D, but >> this step never came. Could someone explain what I was missing? TIA.
>
> You really do not have enough space with 20 gig on D to install both
> an OS and oracle software and get a database up and running
> adequately.
>
> You just might be able to get it running ... perhaps ... if you really
> know what you are doing.
>
> It's pretty dangerous doing the dual boot thing unless you are pretty
> knowledgeable ... a better choice might be getting a separate drive
> and putting just the other drive in your laptop while you are
> experimenting. You are less likely to shoot yourself in the foot that
> way.
>
You might try vmware server (free product) or vmware workstation (not free, but comes with a trial key) and install within your 70 Gb free space.
Shakespeare Received on Thu Jun 18 2009 - 00:22:36 CDT