Problems installing 6.0.36 on Sparc-10

I've been working at installing Oracle 6.0.36 on a Sparc-10 today and have been running into some problems. First of all, the oracd.sh script that came on the CDROM failed right off when the script does

   CD_MOUNT=`pwd`

This fails with an error indicating "..", and when I checked the CDROM there was in fact no .. directory. So, I had to copy the oracd.sh script to disk and change this line to

   CD_MOUNT=/cdrom

After that, the particular problem appeared to be fixed. It makes me wonder though--did Oracle even test if installing from CDROM worked? Considering the error I encountered, I suspect not...

Next I extracted all the packages that I wanted and that went smoothly enough. I proceeded from here to run oracle.install as root, and after that completed, logged into the oracle account itself to do the next step under the oracle user id. When I logged in, I noticed the following error:

   fi: Command not found.  

Curious I thought. So I looked in the .cshrc file and found this:  

echo $PATH | grep /opt/bin > /dev/null
if ( $status ) \

    setenv PATH `echo $PATH | sed 's/\(.*\):$/\1/'`:/opt/bin  

fi

The "fi" obviously was intended for a Bourne-shell "if", not a C-shell "if". Once again, this error makes me wonder--did Oracle even test this code before they released it? I wonder what bigger problems they haven't bothered testing?

In anycase, I fixed this simple error and proceeded with the oracle.install for a simple test database. At this point, I have not been able to complete this step. The oracle install is hanging at this point:

Running SQL*Forms30 installation (forms3.install)... Setting correct SQL*Forms30 file protections... Initializing SQL*Forms30 libraries with ranlib... ranlib: warning: /opt/lib/oracle/forms30/lib/libforms30.a(pecs.o): no symbol table

A ps command shows the following statement being executed:

ranlib /opt/lib/oracle/forms30/lib/libforms30.a /opt/lib/oracle/...

This type of thing normally runs pretty quickly, but right now it's been at it for some 45 minutes. I'm going to let it run over night, but I suspect it's hung for good. Assuming that's the case, can anyone suggest what the problem is?

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Peter Steele        Unix Services Manager            peter.steele_at_acadiau.ca 
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