Re: Oracle on Linux

From: Gert van den Heuvel <heuvelvdg_NOSPAM__at_wxs.nl>
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 16:28:02 GMT
Message-ID: <36fd033a.6283188@news.wxs.nl>

On Fri, 19 Mar 1999 23:16:49 -0600, "Jack" <ocpdba_at_texas.ne> wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I am a newbie to Linux.
>
>The Oracle for Linux installation guide says to just run /orainst/orainst to
>install. Ha! I tried that, and got "command not found". So, I tried sh
>orainst.sh and got a long list of ":command not found" and ":bad variable
>name".
>
>Can anyone of you Linux experts help me out?
>
>
>TIA,
>
>Jack Silvey
>
>

Hi Jack,

I've had the same problem when I installed Oracle 8.0.5 on my Linux machine. Then I read the release notes and saw that you need at least kernel version 2.0.34.
Now I've 2.0.36 installed, and Oracle's installer works fine!

Hth,

Gert. Received on Sat Mar 27 1999 - 10:28:02 CST