On 21 September 2012 15:14, Will McDonald <wmcdon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 September 2012 14:30, John Paget Bourke < > john.bou...@mobileinternet.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> As anyone done an Oracle RAC build using Cobbler ? >> > > I've done a LOT of work on automated Oracle deployments using Cobbler and > recently started looking at getting the Grid Infrastructure install > (required for RAC) rolled in too. > > Unfortunately, it's getting harder and harder to do in the limited > Kickstart chroot environment. (I never had this much trouble with 10g > releases. > > As of 11g R2, the RDBMS install requires an ugly hack to work around the > behaviour of 'who -r' in Busybox (I assume). (Oracle weren't overly > interested in the SR I raised about this.) > > 11g R2 Grid has so far proven impossible to install automatically in the > same limited chrooted environment and I've dicked about for quite a few > hours/days off and on trying to get it to work. > > Oh yeah, one additional gotcha is that Oracle appear to have introduced some OEL dependencies into the oracle-validated RPMs and SRPMs available from oss.oracle.com, without updating the minor release number or the SRPM's changelog. Even for the older releases which /used/ to work just fine. So you'll need to grab the latest SRPM and remove any OEL specific references. Will.
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