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From: "Piotr Kozłowski" <pkozlows@tlen.pl>
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Subject: Re: 9i (9.2.0.1.0) Install problems
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 00:28:32 +0200
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If we consider Linux, Oracle certifies 91R2 only on SUSE and "RH Advanced
Server" ( I don't remember versions now but I can find it if needed) - both
are not free.

I had problems with installation on RH7.1 and Debian (on both, I used
certified versions of kernel and glibc) . After a couple of problems with
JRE, when installation was about to run sqlplus, i got "end of file in
communication channel" . I gave up and installed it on Slackware 8.1 -
without any problems.

so, my advice is - use Slackware.

Piotr


Użytkownik "Pootie" <pootie@london.com> napisał w wiadomości
news:Kcu49.479$I4.75258@news.iquest.net...
> <peter.peltonen@iki.fi> wrote in message
> news:aitarv$ifr$2@oravannahka.helsinki.fi...
> > Pootie <pootie@london.com> wrote:
>
> > I had a similiar problem under RH7 -- The assistants failed. There were
> > two reasons for it:
> >
> > 1) My ORACLE_SID variable was set wrongly so the DB Assistant failed.
> >
> > 2) I had smnpd and a Dell's SNMP based hardware monitoring tool running
> >    which prevented the Agent Assistant from starting.
> >
> > I`ve also heard of cases where you just had to Retry the execution of
the
> > DB Assistant for it to work.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Peter
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> I will check out the processes and eliminate what I can.  I am fairly sure
> my
> ORACLE_SID var is correct, but I will check that also.
>
> I have tried the install with RH 7.3 and 7.1 and both failed for similar
> reasons.
> I did get a little further with 7.1, I believe.  I suspect that the
trouble
> lies
> with the JRE and/or the JDK.  I don't think it installed itself correctly.
> Right
> out of the gate I had to intervene to get the install to continue past
that
> part
> of the procedure.
>
> I had much better results with Oracle 8i and RH 6.2.
>
>