Re: HP9000/7.3 install problem

Jacob Steen Due wrote:
>
> cooper_at_seismo.CSS.GOV (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. :(
>
> Use the START.SH script to create links from a diskbased stageing area
> to the files on disk, then run the orainst installer from the stageing
> area (same procedure as with 7.1 and 7.2).
>
> Best of luck
>
> Jacob
BTW, are you sure your machine has all required patches on and also supports the file system on the CD-ROM (whatever the name, High Sierra or RockRidge-don't remember any more). Might be worth looking at. regards
christoph Received on Wed Sep 11 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST