oracle on linux installation

I have redhat 5.2, kernel 2.0.36 and oracle linux pre-production CD.

Here are my problems:

1. Oratab

I have read the installation instructions and one of them was to create the oratab file. To do so, you should run
/cdrom_mount_point/orainst/oratab.sh

But there is no such file! I tried

ls -R | grep oratab

from /cdrom/orainst and got nothing.

2. Install

The documentation said to run orainst.sh but what I have is install. Anway, I ran install and it should have given me options to Install. Upgrade, etc. as per documentation., and that each option is displayed in a separate window, so you can use Tab. up and down arrow keys, space bar .... but I did not have any of those. What I can remember was:

.. required 300MB. Do you want to continue?

then it still asked me for group account, then it asked me for ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID which I have specified in .bash_profile of the oracle account. After which, I have something like a screen dump of the some scripts.

I therefore did not have the option of what products to install, not like other posters where I see it shows them.

Here are some of the contents of install.log:

Installation log Sat Nov 28 17:03:12 EST 1998 Parameters:
 ORACLE_HOME = /home/oracle/app/oracle/product/8.0.5  ORACLE_SID = sid1
Extracting Oracle8 distribution from CD... Relinking oracle
Using deferred protocol..
Warning: No Cluster or Node Monitor
if /home/oracle/app/oracle/product/8.0.5/bin/get_platform | grep "DG" >
/dev/null ; then \

    echo " - Building Empty Symbol Table " ; \

    /home/oracle/app/oracle/product/8.0.5/bin/echodo /bin/rm -f


/home/oracle/app/oracle/product/8.0.5/rdbms/lib/oraclesym.c; \


    /home/oracle/app/oracle/product/8.0.5/bin/echodo

    cc -c /home/oracle/app/oracle/product/8.0.5/rdbms/lib/oraclesym.c ; \

    echo " - Linking Oracle " ;\
    /home/oracle/app/oracle/product/8.0.5/bin/echodo `if
/home/oracle/app/oracle/product/8.0.5/bin/get_platform | grep "SOL" >
/dev/null ; then echo "ld -dy
/home/oracle/app/oracle/product/8.0.5/lib/SC4.2/crti.o
/home/oracle/app/oracle/product/8.0.5/lib/SC4.2/crt1.o
/home/oracle/app/oracle/product/8.0.5/lib/SC4.2/crtn.o" ; else echo "cc"
; fi` -L/home/oracle/app/oracle/product/8.0.5/lib/ -L/home/oracle/app/oracle/product/8.0.5/rdbms/lib -o oracle -Wl,-zshsegalloc_down oraclesym.o
/home/oracle/app/oracle/product/8.0.5/rdbms/lib/opimai.o
/home/oracle/app/oracle/product/8.0.5/rdbms/lib/ssoraed.o
/home/oracle/app/oracle/product/8.0.5/rdbms/lib/ttcsoi.o

<snip>

As a result that I was not able to create the oratab file, I cannot start oracle with startdb because it was looking for that file.

Any ideas out there from those who have installed oracle on linux?

Thanks,

John Salvo Received on Sat Nov 28 1998 - 01:10:29 CST