Solaris 9 can be a 64-bit OS - it depends on the hardware you are installing
on. I believe you can still run 32 and 64 bit apps on it though so you
don't NEED to have 64-bit Oracle to run on the OS even if you are running
the 64-bit version of it. FYI.
Mark
"Norman Dunbar" <Norman.Dunbar_at_lfs.co.uk> wrote in message
news:E2F6A70FE45242488C865C3BC1245DA703AAAF36_at_lnewton.leeds.lfs.co.uk...
> Morning 'myhome',
>
> first question will always be this, 'did you read, understand and comply
> with the pre-installation instructions' ?
>
> These tell you, regardless of operating system, what memory settings,
> semaphores, limits etc need to be configured into the kernel, or
> whatever, before you start installing Oracle. The fact that dbca bombs
> out sounds familiar (not only on Solaris) and usually points to a missed
> out bit of kernel config. You don't mention if there were any Oracle
> error messages but 'ORA-03113 end of file on communication channel' is
> usually noted with these problems.
>
> Might help !
>
> Cheers,
> Norman.
>
> PS. I'm not Solaris so ignore if this is a stupid question, but is
> Solaris 9 a 64 bit system ?
>
> -------------------------------------
> Norman Dunbar
> Database/Unix administrator
> Lynx Financial Systems Ltd.
> mailto:Norman.Dunbar_at_LFS.co.uk
> Tel: 0113 289 6265
> Fax: 0113 289 3146
> URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com
> -------------------------------------
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: myhome [mailto:myhome_at_home.hk]
> Posted At: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 9:11 AM
> Posted To: server
> Conversation: can I install oracle9i on solaris 9???
> Subject: can I install oracle9i on solaris 9???
>
>
> Does anybody have any experience about installing oracle9i(9.2.0.1 64bit
> version) on solaris9?? Is it any problem?? Becoz it prompt a error about
> out
> of memory when creating and starting a oracle instance in Database
> Configuration Assistant, I donno it cannot run on solaris9 or I did sth
> wrong.
>
> thx
>
>
>
Received on Thu May 15 2003 - 21:20:00 CDT
