Re: HP9000/7.3 install problem

In article <1996Sep17.133754.16041_at_ucseng.ucs.att.com> jdesjar_at_ucs.att.com writes:
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>In article <32378865.3B9D_at_dbintellect.com>, christoph karpeter <ckarpeter_at_dbintellect.com> writes:
>> Jacob Steen Due wrote:
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>> > 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. :(
>> >
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>ORACLE ships the same distribution CD for many different platforms (Solaris, DEC , etc)
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>This cross-platform CD is compliant with some kind of cross-platform standard for CD-ROMs.
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>Now, in your specific case, I know that HP-UX 10, I believe, is NOT compliant to that
>universal CD-Rom format standard.
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>You definitely ought to call ORACLE and inquire about this, as I know that a friend of
>mine had the same problem where ORACLE is shipping the distribution CD according to a
>universal format that HP does not YET comply with....
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>Sorry I had to post, my post office could not find your address...
>
>Jean DESJARDINS
>

Isn't there a symbolic link generator named START.SH that got left out of the instructions?

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