Re: Oracle 9i R2 and Red Hat 9 Linux x86

"Phil Britton" <phil_at_phil-britton.com> wrote in message news:un0b1hom2.fsf_at_phil-britton.com...
> "Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> writes:
>
> > "Carl" <carl_theblue_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:b7f9cffb.0311111730.2affd6f7_at_posting.google.com...
> > > Hi Phil,
> > >
> > > Thanks for you help ,
> > > About question no 2 , I bought red had linux 9 unleashed book and it
> > > comes with 2 CDs of linux , the book does not mention the type ( ie
> > > prof, AS ,ES and WS ) of linux are on the CDs ,
> > > So that is why I dont know what type of Linux I have , I thought there
> > > might me a way to find out.
> >
> > If it's supplied free with a book, then it's just boring old
'workstation'
> > Red Hat 9, not an 'enterprise' or 'advanced server' version (since they
cost
> > huge amounts of cash). It's the same version as you can/could download
for
> > free from redhat.com.
> >
> > Oracle will still run on it, with a bit of arm-twisting. See
www.dizwell.com
> > for info on how.
> >
>
> If it's only on two CDs it doesn't sound like it's full distribution
> of RH9. That normally comes on three CDs.

It's the full(ish) distribution. The ones you get with books tend to miss out a lot of the internationalising stuff that comes on disk 3. But the two disk sets provided still enable a fully functional RH9 install, particularly from the viewpoint of installing Oracle.

>Which means that there could
> be some important stuff missing.

Not really. Not as far as the Oracle install is concerned, anyway.

Regards
HJR
>The cheapest way to get a full distro
> on 3CDs is to get Pink Tie Linux. This is exactly the same as RH9 but
> with Redhat's copyrighted material removed. I've had Oracle 9iR2
> installed and running on this (for educational purposes only :-) and
> as long as you follow some of the instructions that are around the
> web, like Howard's, you should be OK. As I seem to recall I had to
> edit the make file at the link step, as a lot of people mention, and
> had to create a file "/etc/rac" (I think) to get dbca to run. I didn't
> keep notes when I did it so sorry if this is a bit vague
>
> cheers
>
> Phil
>
>
Received on Wed Nov 12 2003 - 04:38:36 CST