Re: help with 8i installation

If you 'untar'-ed (is that a good word ?) the file in your home directory, you should try

cd ~/Oracle8iR2

instead of

cd /Oracle8iR2

Marc

dknite wrote in message ...
>thanks Markus,
>
>I tried that. I got to the point where I copied the Oracle8161_tar.gz file
>to my /home directory. I then did a tar -zxvf Oracle8161_tar.gz to unzip
>the file which it did. It created a directory called Oracle8iR2 with
>permissions drwxr-xr-x. I can't get into the directory though to run the
>installer. I tried cd /Oracle8iR2 and it tells me there is no such file or
>directory.
>
>Your help is much appreciated
>David
>
>
Received on Thu Jul 13 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT