Re: Best Intel OS for Oracle ?

"Anders Berg" <andersb_at_vg.no> wrote in message news:8p0cqb$pcn$1_at_oslo-nntp.eunet.no...
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> "J Krahn" <jeremykrahn_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%Uis5.96$Xs5.1112_at_read1...
> > Look over some of the documentation for installing on both operating
> > systems. We have Oracle installed on RedHat Linux 6.0, and some of the
> > installation is a little tricky. I don't know if Solaris would be any
> > easier. Check out the HOWTO's on the RedHat home site for installing
 Oracle
> > if you do go Linux. It's an opinionated piece of writing, but has some
> > excellent points of procedure for installing.
> >
> > Best of luck.
> >
> > Jeremy Krahn
>
> I just installed Oracle 8.1.5 on a Solaris 8 x86 machine (dual 650, 1GB
> RAM), and that went smooth, as long as I followed the excellent pdf
 install
> doc. that's on the Oracle CD-ROM. I have been testing it for a _short_
 while
> now, and it has run smooth for me as well, but lacking reference to other
> versions and platforms I can't tel you any pros./cons. I have yet to do
 any
> serious benchmarking yet, as I lack a ref. platform.
>
> Anders Berg
>

Excellent advice, Anders. Personally, I have got away with clicking "Next" blindly for a Windows NT/2000 install. But I failed miserably at a Linux install until I read the documentation *extremely* carefully. If you follow *everything* that's there, you'll achieve the desired results. Skip a single step and you're asking for trouble.

Regards
HJR
> > <brian_at_climbers.ph> wrote in message news:8oq4gf$irr$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> > > Our company's about to spring for an Oracle8i SE
> > > license for Intel, but I'm not sure which Intel
> > > OS we should be using. I'm trying to decide
> > > between Linux and Solaris x86. Or would some
> > > other OS (SCO? Win2k?) be better?
> > >
> > > It'll probably be running on one of our existing
> > > servers, a 450MHz quad Xeon, 2GB expandable to
> > > 4GB, RAID drives.
> > >
> > > Any recommendations/suggestions would be most
> > > welcome.
> > >
> > > Brian
> > >
> > >
> > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > > Before you buy.
> >
> >
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Received on Wed Sep 06 2000 - 06:26:14 CDT