Path: news.easynews.com!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!c03.atl99!rip!news.webusenet.com!newsfeed.telusplanet.net!news0.telusplanet.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Glen A Stromquist User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Install Oracle 9i under Linux RedHat 8.0 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 52 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 16:05:55 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.123.238.50 X-Trace: news0.telusplanet.net 1046707555 216.123.238.50 (Mon, 03 Mar 2003 09:05:55 MST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 09:05:55 MST Xref: newsfeed1.easynews.com comp.databases.oracle.server:178269 X-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 09:05:47 MST (news.easynews.com) There are lots of good howtos out there, oracle having a good one themselves on otn, you may want to try: http://www.puschitz.com/ for a reference also. hth Telemachus wrote: > man cpio will start you off. > > they are probably .cpio.gz files and are basically the zipped archives of > the CDROMS > > > do > > if last extension =.gz do gunzip until all files done > if last extension =.cpio then do cpio with correct parameters (extract from > archive and create the directories) until all cpio archives done. > > You will know you have done all correct when you end in directory with > Disk1,Disk2,Disk3 etc > > Advice is to burn to CDROM at that point. > > However if not wanting to do that just CD to Disk1 and run setup. Make sure > you have Java in path. > > Now follow,follow,follow the YBR . Also advise following install guide from > tahiti.oracle.com and otn.oracle.com > > > HTH-YMMV > Telemachus. > "Alex" wrote in message > news:b3vlg2$njk$05$1@news.t-online.com... > >>Hi, >>I want to install Oracle 9i under Linux RedHat 8.0. >>First I'm a beginner about using Linux and my problem is I get 3 Oracle > > files with the extension *.cpio and I don't know how I can start the > installation. > >>So please help me. >> >>THX >> >>Alexander Lukesch > > >