Re: Sqlnet V1 installation on SUN clients

jmjm_at_cbnewsm.cb.att.com (joseph.m.miklewicz) writes:
|> I am trying to install SQLNET V1 from the Oracle 7.0.12 cdrom
|> distribution on my SUN IPX running 4.1.2.
|>
|> I have created a UNIX user called oracle and a group called dba. Created
|> a home directory of /u01/home/oracle for oracle
|>
|> drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 512 Apr 30 10:44 /u01
|> drwxrwxrwx 3 root wheel 512 Apr 30 10:44 /u01/home
|> drwxr-xr-x 7 oracle dba 512 Apr 30 14:06 /u01/home/oracle
|> drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle dba 512 Apr 30 10:58 product
|> drwxr-xr-x 11 oracle dba 512 Apr 30 12:36 product/7.0.12
|>
|> I have mounted the cdrom as:
|>
|> mount -r -t hsfs /dev/sr0 /cdrom
|>
|> the permissions on the directory tree down to orainst are:
|>
|> dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2048 Jan 28 21:52 /cdrom
|> drwxr-xr-x 32 9741 643 4096 Jan 29 06:56 /cdrom/oracle
|> drwxr-xr-x 2 9741 643 6144 Jan 28 21:51 /cdrom/oracle/orainst
|>
|> I am running openwindows when I do this so in an xterm window I "su -" from
|> me to "oracle".
|>
|> I cd to /cdrom/oracle/orainst and type in ./orainst. ( My ORACLE_HOME is
|> set to /u01/home/oracle/product/7.0.12 and my ORACLE_BASE is set to
|> /u01/home/oracle. )
|>
|> The installer asks me what I want to use for ORACLE_HOME and offers me
|> /u01/home/oracle/product/7.0.12 as the default. I take the default, the
|> installed changes to the next screen and prints the error message:
|>
|> sh: getwd: can't open ..
|>
|> and fails. I have tried everything I can think of in terms of checking
|> permissions, etc. and am getting nowhere. I can get the software
|> installed if I log in as root. ( I am only installing the SQLNET V1
|> software, not the oracle kernel. )
|>
|> Anybody run into this??!!! Anybody have any ideas as to what the problem
|> is?
|>
|> Thanks,
|> --
|> Joe Miklewicz 908-949-3061 jmjm_at_hogpa.att.com

I think the problem is something funky with the way SunOS 4.1.2 reads our CD-ROMs. It apparently wants to attach a '.' to the end of all the filename that do not already contain a '.' I believe the only workaround is to mount the disk on a Sun running 4.1.3 (either that or remove all the offending .'s after copying the whole distribution off CD onto disk -- not a fun thing to do).

Roderick Manalac
Worldwide Support Received on Wed May 05 1993 - 06:41:18 CEST