Re: OFA install

mwu_at_symantec.com (Matt Wu) writes:

>I recently installed Oracle for SunOS 4.1.3 and found the documentation to be
>somewhat perplexing at times. One thing that I found particularly frustrating was
>the way the documentation sometimes refers to the oracle home directory as
>/u01/home/oracle/product/7.1.4 and sometimes as /home/oracle. Because
>of the way the documentation was written, I ended up not only installing the
>software in /u01/home/oracle/product/7.1.4, but I changed the login directory
>for the oracle user to be there as well. Everything works but that doesn't
>necessarily mean anything since OFA is just a recommendation.
 

>My question is: What was I really supposed to do and does it really matter?

It doesn't matter at all. The OFA installation is only a recommendation. If you install from scratch, following the OFA may be a good start. When you discuss something with somebody else outside, you may find you both are talking in the 'same language'. Many organisations, however, may already have their corporate standards that have to be adhered when Oracle is upgraded from v6 to v7. The OFA is, therefore, not applicable to them.

Oracle installation mannual introduced OFA, but it used DEFAULT installations such as '/home/oracle', etc. in some examples as well. Many people like you and me were all confused.

>Matt
>mwu_at_symantec.com

Peng Hu
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