Re: Installing Oracle 10g on Linux -- OUCH!!

From: Howard J. Rogers <hjr_at_dizwell.com>
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 15:28:30 +1100
Message-Id: <418da458$0$11547$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>

Matthias Wirtz wrote:

> "Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:418a8e08$0$32593$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au...
>

>> > Just curious if this has been a show-stopper for others wishing to use
>> > Oracle on Linux?  Mine is mainly for testing and learning, nothing
>> > production.

>> And yes, everyone else will point out how you can install onto this or

> that

>> distro...

>
> Yes, did 9iR2 on Slackware 9 and RedHat 7 and 10g on RedHat too. Could be
> that some installation script expects things in different locations but
> nothing mission critical.
>

>> though I strongly suggest that there is neither need nor occasion ever to

> do so.
>
> I don't get the point. If someone is familar with Slack why shoud he
> exchange it with something he doesn't know?
> --
> Matthias Wirtz - Norfolk, USA

Because when are you ever going to install Oracle in a production environment onto Slackware, or Gentoo, or Red Hat 9, or Mandrake?

Learning something you are never actually going to use or do seems to me to be ivory tower learning of the worst possible sort.

Since Red Hat Enterprise Server is available free of charge (when it becomes known as White Box Linux), and since anyone can run that regardless of the operating system which they are already using without having to lose or damage that operating system, courtesy of VMware, there is precisely zero need ever to install anything else for proper learning and training purposes.

I have explained my reasoning on the matter, anyway, at http://www.dizwell.com/html/virtual_oracle__linux_.html

So, as an example, I am running Suse Pro 9.1 (a non-certified distro) on my laptop, and yet have access to 9i and 10g installations when the need arises, both of which are running on a properly-certified (RHAS3) O/S, and with all their functionality guaranteed to work as advertised. Anything I have to do to the O/S in those installation environments is something I would likely have to do in a production environment. The learning environment is thus appropriate, accurate and sufficient.

You are, of course, free to disagree.
Regards
HJR Received on Sat Nov 06 2004 - 22:28:30 CST