Re: Installation Problems 7.1.4 (Tape)

If you have sufficient disk space, then I'd suggest you build a "permanent staging home" first. Then you can install ORACLE from the permanent staging home to ORACLE_HOME (or ORACLE_BASE if you are going for OFA-compliant). Installing from a permanent staging home is (99%) identical to installing from a CD-ROM. For various reasons which I won't go into, installing directly from tape is inherently less stable than installing from CD-ROM/perm stage.

The space you need to build a staging home is roughly the same as the eventual size of ORACLE_HOME. So if you have done your space calculation for ORACLE_HOME, expect to use up the same amount of disk space for building the perm stage.

Once you have installed ORACLE, you can remove perm stage. However, if you plan to install additional ORACLE (say on other machines), you might want to keep the perm stage around (which can be exported via NFS to other machines).

Pei L. Ku
Principal Consultant
The RightSizing Group
San Mateo, CA Received on Sun Mar 19 1995 - 18:57:07 CET