Re: how-to install Oracle 10g on RHES3 with no X-windows

On 18 Oct 2005 08:34:18 -0700, "googleboy" <mynews44_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

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>Billy wrote:
>> googleboy wrote:
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>> > I would appreciate pointers to documentation on installing and using
>> > oracle sans gui, and also any war stories that you may feel would help
>> > me in my venture.
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>> Why not use VNC Server? X is by default (should be) installed on RHES.
>> So all you do is the following in the oracle Unix account:
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>Thanks for the advice. I might have to look into that if there is no
>other way.
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>This system doesn't have X installed, it wasn't a default install. I
>strongly prefer not to have to install X, too. This was why I was
>hoping to get more info on doing it without X.
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>This box is behind a very slow link, remote administration using a gui
>will be quite laggy. Has oracle really moved so far away from cli that
>you can't do things without X?

VNC even over a slow link is good enough for an oracle install. You don't need to administer Oracle with a GUI, just install. (or GUI can run elsewhere, e.g. on DBA's windows box) .......
We use Oracle 8.1.7.4 and 9.2.0.6/7 on Solaris 2.7 and RH4 remove NSPAM to email Received on Tue Oct 18 2005 - 12:13:44 CDT