Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!pd7cy2so!pd7cy1no!shaw.ca!pd2nf1so.cg.shawcable.net!residential.shaw.ca!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-xit-09!supernews.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: rgaffuri@cox.net (Ryan Gaffuri) Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Server installtion Date: 10 Oct 2003 10:09:14 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 32 Message-ID: <1efdad5b.0310100909.5d3834b3@posting.google.com> References: <3f8668b2$0$29372$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.39.220.242 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1065805754 26855 127.0.0.1 (10 Oct 2003 17:09:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:09:14 +0000 (UTC) Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.oracle.server:245052 "Howard J. Rogers" wrote in message news:<3f8668b2$0$29372$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>... > Jago wrote: > > > Hi all, > > yesterday I started installation of 9i on RedHat 9. > > It's an old PC: Celeron 333MHz, 512MB RAM and 1024MB swap. > > The database manager installation started at 5.30 p.m. (GMT). Now it's > > 7.30 a.m. (GMT) next day and I still have 46% of installation progress. > > Can it take so long time, the installation? > > > > Any hint suggested? > > > > Greetings, > > Jacek > > I would say it's stuffed, because memory is the real determinant with the > install, not the CPU speed. > > My (self-publicising) hint would be to visit my website and download my > paper on installing 9.2 onto Red Hat 9, and see if there are any steps in > there which you might have missed, or some steps which you took which you > shouldn't have. > > For the record, on an Athlon 1GHz with 512MB, the install once started takes > about 25 minutes to complete. > > Regards > HJR so what type of work will your company due? Training? Or are you going to do onsite consulting as well?