Re: Many problems installing Oracle 7 on AIX

In article <2b5dmj$q15_at_news.univ-rennes1.fr>, bourasse_at_univ-rennes1.fr (Claude Bourasseau - CRI/CICB Rennes 99.84.71.24) writes:
|> A friend of mine tries to install Oracle 7.0.13 on AIX 3.2.1.
|> Just a few questions about it :
|>
|> is 7.0.13 certified for AIX 3.2.1 ?

What do you mean by "certified"? 7.0.13 is the first "official" release of Oracle V7 for AIX (in France: I think it was 7.0.12 in the US). And yes it can be installed ;>)

|> |> is it possible to choose another dba group than "dba" , for example
|> "oradba" ? (I remember Oracle 6 on AIX didn't permit that).

I don't know for this one (I use "dba" as group...)

|> |> can i have more than 4-characters string value for ORACLE_SID variable ?

I don't think so.

As a last word beware that Oracle need more space than what is indicated during the installation choice: even if you don't want to build a staging area, you'll end up with one!
And I remember having problems with installation of the XA Library (specifically when building the shared version of the libraries). Eventually I stayed away from the XA library and everything worked well.

Good luck

Philippe

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