From: "Ronald Kuczek" Subject: Re: Oracle 8.0.5 on Red Hat 6.0 Date: 2000/08/08 Message-ID: <8mprv9$d9o$1@news.netcologne.de>#1/1 Distribution: world References: X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Complaints-To: abuse@netcologne.de X-Trace: news.netcologne.de 965767977 13624 195.14.248.186 (8 Aug 2000 20:52:57 GMT) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Aug 2000 20:52:57 GMT Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server "Mark Baker" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:n1Zj5.814$7v2.98570@nnrp3.clara.net... > About 3 or 4 months ago I downloaded a tar file of Oracle 8.0.5 for Linux. > > I've just got round to trying to install it and have got as far as > un-tarring the > contents to the $ORACLE_HOME area: > > /u01/app/oracle/product/8.0.5 > > and all the usual oracle directories are present. > > I've already set up the oracle user, dba group and the environment > variables. > > The /etc/oratab has manually been created - owned by oracle too, empty. > > So far so good. But what now? > > I tried switching to $ORACLE_HOME/orainst and ran ./orainst but it keeps > asking me to mount a disk. There is no disk - it came from a "tarball". > > The documentation seems to have a gap here so where do I go from here? > Any help greatly appreciated. > Thanks - > Mark > > Hi Mark ! I have Oracle 8.0.5 on Linux SuSe 6.0 with kernel 2.0.36 running , I'll try to help you: 1. You have to download and apply glibcpatch (look on http://technet.oracle.com ) 2. Copy you install files anywhere, not in $ORACLE_HOME directory 3. Delete /etc/oratab file. Instead set enviroment variable ORATAB_FAIL to true. 4. Set variables ORACLE_HOME,ORACLE_OWNER, LD_LIBRARY_PATH (to $ORACLE_HOME/lib). Add $ORACLE_HOME/bin to PATH. 5. Start orainst script from you installation bin directory and follow instructions. (possible you have to set execute privilege on all files in bin installation directory). Select option Install Software *do not create database objects* !!! 6. After installation run script root.sh . 7. Unset ORATAB_FAIL variable. 8. Run one more time orainst, this time select option Install Software Create Database Objects. 9. After installation try to run sqlplus system/manager - you should have connection to your database. 10. If you want to shutdown your server don't forget to shutdown oracle: svrmgrl connect internal shutdown immediate. After new start you have to start database: svrmgrl connect internal startup. You can start/shutdown oracle automatically with script in /etc/rc.d . For example search howto.oracle in linux documentation. Best regards Rony