From: "spencer" Subject: Re: totally new Date: 2000/05/05 Message-ID: #1/1 References: X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Complaints-To: abuse@swbell.net X-Trace: news.swbell.net 957580464 208.190.213.116 (Fri, 05 May 2000 21:34:24 CDT) Organization: SBC Internet Services X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 21:34:24 CDT Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server the Oracle CD should have come with an Installation Guide that should give you some very specific instructions on what you need to do on AIX (as root) to prepare the OS for the installation of Oracle, and some specific steps you need to take to do the installation. My suggestion is that you locate a copy of the Installation Guide for the version of Oracle and the OS that you are working with. "Administrator" wrote in message news:sh5rsihsgbn14@corp.supernews.com... > hi. im attempting to install 8i on aix4.3.3. totally clueless about this. > can i install 8i even if my aix's cde doesn't work? why do i need to use > xhost? totally new, don't even have a roadmap. thanks. > >