Oracle 10g on Linux install no-nos (Cygwin)

If you are installing Oracle 10g R1 on RHEL - here are a few things you do not want to do:

Do not allow the destructo box on which you are testing to be connected to the network via a 10 base T hub that violates the 3-4-5 rule. I've had better connectivity borrowing an 802.11b connection from a friend's neighbors house several doors away.

(Imagine Michael Bolton trying to see if he can hit that little hub
out of the park with his bat).

Do not attempt to run a Cygwin Xserver for installing 10g R1 and patchsets over said poor network connection, unless attempting to benchmark how long it would take over a dialup connection. VNCServer would be a better call (15 min install becomes 2 hours).

Do not attempt to unzip and cpio the Oracle database server software and patchsets and burn them to CD on your win XP laptop using Cygwin
(as a work-around for having a network connection as described above).
The file attributes will be stripped and the install will fail (unless one resets the file/directory attributes).

When working with OUI ... remote control can be nice in a pinch, but
(real) console access is still King.

Paul

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