Re: Installation of Oracle 8.1.7 on SunOS 5.8 fails

Karl Hahn wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
>
> > Who owns the directory structure into which you are installing Oracle? ...
> > from top to bottom?
>
> First of all, thanks for your help!
>
> The directory structure of /opt/oracle (I have also moved the installation
> directories 'Disk1' and 'Disk2' to /opt/oracle):
>
> (in /opt/oracle)
>
> > ll
> drwxrwxr-x 6 oracle oinstall 512 Jun 21 11:07 .
> drwxr-xr-x 11 root sys 512 Jun 18 16:28 ..
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 1159 Jun 19 15:21 .cshrc
> -rw------- 1 oracle oinstall 137 Jun 21 11:06 .history
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 oracle oinstall 424 Jun 21 11:05 .tcshrc
> dr-xr-xr-x 10 oracle oinstall 512 May 23 2001 Disk1
> dr-xr-xr-x 3 oracle oinstall 512 May 22 2001 Disk2
> drwxrwxr-x 2 oracle oinstall 512 Jun 21 11:06 oraInventory
> drwxrwxr-x 3 oracle oinstall 512 Jun 21 11:07 product
>
> > ll -R product
> product:
> drwxrwxr-x 3 oracle oinstall 512 Jun 21 11:07 .
> drwxrwxr-x 6 oracle oinstall 512 Jun 21 11:07 ..
> drwxrwxr-x 2 oracle oinstall 512 Jun 21 11:07 8.1.7
>
> product/8.1.7:
> drwxrwxr-x 2 oracle oinstall 512 Jun 21 11:07 .
> drwxrwxr-x 3 oracle oinstall 512 Jun 21 11:07 ..
> -rwx------ 1 oracle oinstall 707 Jun 21 11:07 orainstRoot.sh
>
> > ll -R oraInventory
> oraInventory:
> drwxrwxr-x 2 oracle oinstall 512 Jun 21 11:06 .
> drwxrwxr-x 6 oracle oinstall 512 Jun 21 11:07 ..
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 oracle oinstall 19 Jun 21 11:06 install.platform
>
> I can't find any problem here ;-)
>
> Bye,
> Charlie

I agree. Nothing jumps out at me with respect to this and I've never encountered this error. The only suggestion I can make is to reinstall.

Though one thought is that I don't su to root to run the script. I log on as root and su to Oracle.

Daniel Morgan Received on Sat Jun 22 2002 - 01:33:57 CDT