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	-Is this necessary everytime an update or upgrade of some tiny 	
	software is made too?

2)	-All of my semaphores and device I/O and other 'minimum' requirements
	suggested in the installation book are already fine on the system.  
	How much additional 'messing' around do I need to do to get it 	
	installed?  I would rather not touch these until later because we 
	have an installation package from ORACLE.  We are mainly trying to 
	'learn' the system so that when we go to training, etc.  We have a 
	good idea of what we are dealing with (terminology, environment, 
	etc...).

	I am mainly concerned about the UNIX!  If Oracle does not get 	
	installed properly - no problem, BUT if in the process, I lose UNIX, 
	then BIG PROBLEM (possibly, if I can't get it back by the next day).

	I have also heard that you have to assign specific chunks of your 
	memory to Oracle.  Does this mean no other software can use it at 
	all?  How would one go about doing that exactly?

3)	We are not using X-Windows, but the requirements state that Motif and 
	X11R5 should be running.  X11R5 is running, but no Motif.  Does this 
	mean we can't use our Emulators:  Hummingbird and Reflection? Do we 
	have to use Oracle in a command line mode environment? {Discoverer 
	and Developer are both the PC-Windows based versions}

4)	I have about 320MB of HD space on one disk to assign to the server 
	and its related software.  Is this enough?  Developer will be 	

5)	We also purchased Pro*C.  We have the HP C compiler A.09.77.  Pro*C 
	requires an ANSI C compiler.  The HP C can generate ANSI C Code with 
	the -Aa option.  Is this good enough or do we need to get another 
	compiler?