Re: Installation on Solaris

"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:1063293247.423561_at_yasure...
> Chloe Crowder wrote:
>
> >Hi
> >
> >trying to install Oracle 9.2 on to solaris 5.8 from CD. When the
installer
> >requests the second disk I can't eject the current disk. Manual eject
does
> >nothing, and using the eject command tells me umount failed and the drive
is
> >busy. umount -f fails with a permission failed.
> >
> >Its the installer hogging the drive, because eject works when I quit
> >installer.
> >
> >Probably something fairly basic, but any ideas? Perhaps the eject has to
be
> >run as a different user - but which one?
> >
> >Chloe Crowder
> >
> >
> >
> This is a common problem. Sometimes solved by running runInstaller in
> the background. But best resolved by copying the CDs to the hard disk.
>
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Or not being cd-ed to the cd-rom, as instructed by Oracle ;-)

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