Re: Install Oracle 10g on newest RedHat Linux 9 or Fedora - ?

"C Barr" <stonebridge_at_hotpop.com> wrote in message news:a3d8e2c9.0402121049.19303d_at_posting.google.com...
> Is it feasible to install Oracle 10g on Redhat 9 ( RH 9) or Fedora?

I don't know about Fedora, but on RH9 or RH8, absolutely.

The instructions for RH8 and 9 for 10g are practically identical to those in my paper for 9i on RH9 at www.dizwell.com.

When you're setting up the installation directories, replace "9i" with "10g" or anything else that makes sense.
When you're doing it on RH8, skip the stuff about LD_ASSUME_KERNEL and THREADS_FLAG in the environment variables, but otherwise they're the same (again, substitute "10g" or whatever for the "9i" components of those variables)
When you're unpacking the installation media, you unzip ship* and then cpio -idmv < ship..., rather than Lnx.... Oh, and you only have to unpack one file not three (nice!). And you have to invoke runInstaller with the -IGNORESYSPREREQS flag. But that's about it.

> I've read of installing 9i on RH 9 by changing some things to look
> like RH 8 or 8.1, but I wonder about attempting 10g on RH 9.

Attempt away. It's as easy as 9i on RH9. On second thoughts -no, actually it's easier, because the linking phase doesn't even blow up any more complaining about ins_ctx.mk. There's no editing of files to make the link phase work. It just works.

The CRS daemons might not start (at least, not for me, not yet, on RH8), which means you can't use Automatic Storage Management. But everything else is fine.

> Needless to say, I'm looking for the low-cost/no-cost Redhat OS here,
> not the Redhat Enterprise Server / Application Server.

Regards
HJR Received on Thu Feb 12 2004 - 17:21:23 CST