I hate the Oracle 8i installter and here is why

I have been trying to get Oracle 8i on Linux and I feel that I must share
my thoughts on the new Oracle installer with everybody.

I *hate* the new installer. I used to run the installer from home over my
128Kbps connection while I was connected to the office machines, because it
was simple text based. And Oracle 8i has changed all that!

I have nothing against GUI based installers, only when they have a little too
many animated images that eat up bandwidth. I had to drive all the way to
the office because I did not have sufficient bandwidth to display the darn
ringing bell animated image. This is strictly the mentality of Windows users
who like to work on the console of servers.

And check this out:

line 118 in my install log file at :
/usr/local/oracle/u01/app/oracle/oraInventory/logs/installActions.log
says :
platGroup = WINDOWS

And this is on Linux!!! Maybe the Oracle folks are forgetting that Linux
users are a little too sensitive to these kind of mistakes. :)

This also supports my theory that the new installer is a gift from Windows
programmers. Who are not too familiar with the idea of being able to send
their video display to any computer around the world and work from there.
A feature every Linux user takes for granted

There are numerous other bugs in the installer and other routines of Oracle
8i for Linux. Some of them I will list here:

2. The installation types screen list 3 options: Typical, Minimal and Custom.
Somehow Minimal takes more disk space (642 MB) compared to Typical (585 MB).
Well that is what the installation screen says. I have not tried to install
using the minimal install.

3. The installation cant figure out how much free space is available on the /
partition. Is it that hard? Its gives warnings about how I may not have
enough space.

4. dbassist cant find the cdrom if you try to install the default database
from CDROM. It says cannot find CDROM even if you have all your stuff under
/mnt/cdrom

5. The docs talk about software mount points and data mount points /u01
/u02
/u03 and /u04 that I created, but I could not find anywhere to specify
them
like I was able to, with the last release.

6. "Oracle Protocol Support" section during the install shows no options at all.
What happened to good ole Net8?

And many others. This product is a joke.

Atif.
atif55_at_my-dejanews.com

Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't. Received on Mon Aug 02 1999 - 20:56:44 CDT