Re: Oracle 9i / Linux install Help Please

I've been looking into it a bit more and noticed the install wasn't creating a tnsnames files !!!! Im not an oracle guru so not a clue why this maybe. Anyway I editted my .bash_profile and set the TNS variable to point to the /opt/oracle/product/9.0.1/network/admin directory and everything went fine in the install !!! I also noticed that the tnsnames file was there. I now need to check out why after install the listener seems to give me errors. Now I know a little more I can check the details in the config files till I get it right.

As for my box its got 640mg memory and 1.2gig swap. I tried suse on it and oracle installed fine apart from some apache issues, but in the end I just found SUSE and bit of a pain because all of the software on the web comes in rpm's for redhat and I got fed up of compiling stuff for suse.

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"Pete Sharman" <peter.sharman_at_oracle.com> wrote in message
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> In article <3ce7dda2$1_19_at_news.onlynews.com>, "Jon says...


> >

> >8i asks you if you want to run the 'optional' utlities during the

> >installation. DON'T! Run them by hand after the install works

> >It seems tbe universal installer is not very good at spawning other java

> >apps and it hangs a lot in attempting to run dbca while universal

 installer


> >is already running.


> >

> >You could use suse 7.x, and oracle 9i.  Suse Linux is Oracle's supported

> >platform for 9i. (I guess they are mad at RedHat- who knows)  Suse has an

> >excellent oracle guide (http://www.suse.com/us/support/oracle/index.html)

> >that walks you through the users/groups/directories/ etc.  No hunting

 around


> >on the web -it's all right there.


> >

> >If you do go to 9i, it asks if you want to create a database during the

> >install - DON'T! Same problem as above...

> >

> >

> >JON

> >

>

> Must be a configuration issue.  I've run the DBCA from the installer with

 every


> install since 9.0 release 10 (alpha code) and not had any problems with


 it.  Of


> course, I'm installing clean each time (you can't generally migrate alpha


 code


> from one release to another so you deinstall it first) and I have a PC


 with 512


> Mb or a Solaris box with about the same.


>

> Oh, and I don't think there's an issue with RedHat.  I believe there's

 been a


> RedHat release of 9i for quite some time.


>

> >

> >"Steven Webb" <Swebb999_at_btopenworld.com> wrote in message

> >news:abujfg$741$1_at_paris.btinternet.com...

> >> Hi,

> >>

> >> Im trying to install 9i on redhat 7.2. I've followed a few web site

 tips


> >> about what to do about installing java, and creating oracle users,

 setting


> >> shared memory and so on. Im still having problems when the network


> >> configuration assistant runs up though in the installer. Basically it

 just


> >> sits there listening. Now my machine is called hotrats (after the great


> >> zappa/beefheart album :) and the /etc/hosts file contains the following

> >>

> >> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost

> >> 127.0.0.1 hotrats hotrats

> >>

> >> everything resolves ok when i use the apache and when I ping. I've set

 the


> >> SID as database what should I enter as the global database name. I've


 tried


> >> just database but I get the network problem.


> >>

> >> I set the hostname and the ip addresses using network configurator.

> >>

> >> So thats it basically the listener just listens. If I kill it and at

 the
 end


> >> of the installation run the netca the test shows that the tcp listener


 seems


> >> to work but the ipc one fails for some reason.


> >>

> >> Any idea's ? Oh and does the listener matter anyway on a stand alone

 machine


> >> ? I'm installing oracle so I can learn how to use it by the way.


> >>

> >> Please help

> >>

> >> Cheers

> >>

> >> Steve

> >>

> >> --

> >>

> >>

> >>

> >>

> >>

> >>

> >>

> >

> >

>

> HTH.  Additions and corrections welcome.

>

> Pete

>

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