Re: Oracle 8.1.7 download won't install properly on Linux

Hi Volkmar,

> Java Runtime Environment 1.1.8 v3, from blackdown.org

You don't need it. If Oracle uses it. You'll get into trouble! I believe Oracle uses 1.1.8.7 ?? (-not- shure about this.)

When dbassist asks you to perform create database immediate or save script file choose to save the script file and
execute the scripts step by step.

1. svrmgrl create database
2. create tablespaces
3. run scripts to populate the database sys tables.
4. help tables

or so.

Try to use as less as possible options (time series, spatial, ...)

The create tablespace ... datafile ...
can run -very- long. even with no disk activity. Seen this yesterday on OSF1.
If you have a 2 GB datafile and calculate 2 MB/Sec you should be OK. :-\

If you wait really long enough and you get no result or error then your hardware is bad.

Try to do something like
dd if=/dev/zero of=/your_disk/test bs=1024k count=2 dd if=/your_disk/test of=/dev/null

kind regards,

Toni

> Here's the problem: The installer starts up, no problem there, and proceeds
> to install the various elements of the 'typical' installation. However,
> whenever it gets to installing the database itself (also chose predefined
> options to keep things simple at first) it just 'hangs' on 'Initializing
> Database'. There are no error messages, and nothing crashes, the
> harddrive(s) just stop doing anything, and I waited for 25 mins. (With my
> system specs, that ought to be plenty...)
> When I then kill the installer windows with Ctrl-Alt-Esc, and try to look on
> the drive that contains the home directory for Oracle, it doesn't display
> the contents of that folder, but rather freezes.
> Does anyone have a similar problem ?
> I'm grateful for any advice !!
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
>
> Regards,
>
> Volkmar
 

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