Re: Do sites actually install Oracle themselves ? What a nightmare...

In article <31EE439E.6906_at_ha.hac.com>, Ed Bruce <bruce_at_ha.hac.com> wrote:

[snip]

> When I attempted to install Pro*Ada with 7.2.3 the installation script
 attempted to
> build an object library on the cdrom. I asked Oracle how they expected
 to write to a
> read-only device. Obviously I had to finish the installation manually.

We're trying to install 7.2.3 here. And we have an Oracle engineer on site here helping us try.

We couldn't use 7.3.1 because it needs HP-UX 10. So we decided to stay with 7.2.3...but it needed Motif 1.2.4. We had Motif 1.2.0 installed (HP-UX 9.01, unpatched for Motif) and the Oracle consultant, working with the tech support over the phone, said we needed two HP patches to get us up to Motif 1.2.4.

Well, those patches were gone and superseded by patches which incorporated Motif 1.2.5. So I downloaded and installed those...and the Motif Server Manager *still* won't compile. Oracle support still says that it needs 1.2.4, and that 1.2.5 won't work. Neither our on-site contractor nor I believe that...but it won't compile just the same.

So we're still working with 7.0.16, which installed beautifully on the standard 9.01 systems unpatched, until we get everything worked out, and it's going on a week now...

-- 
Tim Irvin, HP-UX Miracle Worker and Oracle Guy
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space, Sunnyvale, California
e-mail: irvin_at_lmsc.lockheed.com    voice:  (408) 742-0440
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