Re: HP9000/7.3 install problem

Dale Cooper wrote:
>
> Fellow HP/Oracle folk:
>
> We're having one heck of time installing 7.3 on our HP9000. I don't think it's
> an Oracle proble per se, most likely a mounting problem. We've followed the
> directions printed on the CD distribution for mounting the CD and we have had
> success, yet when we try to run the installer, all of the files in the
> distribution appear in upper case...and when we try to do the install, of course
> the thing fails because it's looking for the orainst.cm (in addition to a
> number of other key files) in lowercase. Now, I'm sure that Oracle would
> never ship such a blunderous release to us. As such we believe that it is
> the way that we are mounting the CD. Does anyone have any insight as to why
> this is happening and perhaps give us help in how to resolve this little
> annoyance? We think it to be similar to the -f flag in SCO unix...but that's
> just a guess.
>
> Please email as I don't have regular access to the net like I used to. :(

The problem is in the Instructions. They leave out the step run the script START.SH.

This is done after the oracle_link directory is created. This sets up "links" to the upeercase names within the oracle_link directory

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