Re: Installation of Oracle 8.1.7 on SunOS 5.8 fails

Hi Daniel,

again - thanks for your help!

> 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.

What do you means with 'reinstall'? Reinstallation of Oracle with the Universal Installer is not possible because Oracle was never installed completely. I tried to start the Installer again after deleting all files and directories which have been created during the installation, i.e.

/opt/oracle/product
/opt/oracle/oraInventory
/var/opt/oracle/??? (was a file *.loc - don't know it exactly right now).

Are there any other (configuration) files which are created during the installation? I' m not sure but I think to remember that the Installer had a message box about 'where to install the oraInventory' which was never displayed since the first installation again. Where is this information stored?

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

You mean you run the script as user 'oracle'? Or you didn't use 'su' but did a login as 'root' to execute the script? I can't believe that this will make a difference, but UNIX is a miracle and I am rather desperate at the moment, so I will try it ;-)

Bye and thanks,
Charlie Received on Sat Jun 22 2002 - 17:15:42 CDT