Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle From: rmanalac@oracle.COM (Roderick Manalac) Subject: Re: Sqlnet V1 installation on SUN clients Message-ID: <1993May5.044118.15968@oracle.us.oracle.com> Sender: usenet@oracle.us.oracle.com (Oracle News Poster) Nntp-Posting-Host: wrpyr4.us.oracle.com Reply-To: rmanalac@oracle.com Organization: Oracle Corp., Redwood Shores References: Distribution: usa Date: Wed, 5 May 1993 04:41:18 GMT X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user at Oracle Corporation. The opinions expressed are those of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle. Lines: 57 jmjm@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (joseph.m.miklewicz) writes: |> I am trying to install SQLNET V1 from the Oracle 7.0.12 cdrom |> distribution on my SUN IPX running 4.1.2. |> |> I have created a UNIX user called oracle and a group called dba. Created |> a home directory of /u01/home/oracle for oracle |> |> drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 512 Apr 30 10:44 /u01 |> drwxrwxrwx 3 root wheel 512 Apr 30 10:44 /u01/home |> drwxr-xr-x 7 oracle dba 512 Apr 30 14:06 /u01/home/oracle |> drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle dba 512 Apr 30 10:58 product |> drwxr-xr-x 11 oracle dba 512 Apr 30 12:36 product/7.0.12 |> |> I have mounted the cdrom as: |> |> mount -r -t hsfs /dev/sr0 /cdrom |> |> the permissions on the directory tree down to orainst are: |> |> dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2048 Jan 28 21:52 /cdrom |> drwxr-xr-x 32 9741 643 4096 Jan 29 06:56 /cdrom/oracle |> drwxr-xr-x 2 9741 643 6144 Jan 28 21:51 /cdrom/oracle/orainst |> |> I am running openwindows when I do this so in an xterm window I "su -" from |> me to "oracle". |> |> I cd to /cdrom/oracle/orainst and type in ./orainst. ( My ORACLE_HOME is |> set to /u01/home/oracle/product/7.0.12 and my ORACLE_BASE is set to |> /u01/home/oracle. ) |> |> The installer asks me what I want to use for ORACLE_HOME and offers me |> /u01/home/oracle/product/7.0.12 as the default. I take the default, the |> installed changes to the next screen and prints the error message: |> |> sh: getwd: can't open .. |> |> and fails. I have tried everything I can think of in terms of checking |> permissions, etc. and am getting nowhere. I can get the software |> installed if I log in as root. ( I am only installing the SQLNET V1 |> software, not the oracle kernel. ) |> |> Anybody run into this??!!! Anybody have any ideas as to what the problem |> is? |> |> Thanks, |> -- |> Joe Miklewicz 908-949-3061 jmjm@hogpa.att.com I think the problem is something funky with the way SunOS 4.1.2 reads our CD-ROMs. It apparently wants to attach a '.' to the end of all the filename that do not already contain a '.' I believe the only workaround is to mount the disk on a Sun running 4.1.3 (either that or remove all the offending .'s after copying the whole distribution off CD onto disk -- not a fun thing to do). Roderick Manalac Worldwide Support