thanks for all you answers.
Can you please tell me how to create a mountpoint. It seems i don't
understand the meaning of a mountpoing
thanks again
vinayak
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wignall, Mark T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 10:12 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux on Oracle
> The mount points are in support of Oracle's OFA, and not a requirement.
You
> can have just a single mount point if you like. In my case I've just
> created a single mount point of /db ... in fact my first installation just
> did a mkdir off of root for /db. I've since changed to a whole new drive
> and mount for it.
>
> Mark Wignall
> MES Oracle DBA
> Xerox Corp.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vinayak Pai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 7:35 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Linux on Oracle
>
>
> hi all,
> thnaks for your help
> I am an Oracle DBA and so far have worked only on
> WindowsNT. Now i am trying to install Oracle8i (8.1.6)
> on Linux. I have got Linux Mandrake version 7.1
> installed on a intel system.
> 300 MHz
> 64MB RAM
>
> The oracle Documentaion asks to create 4 mountpoints.
> One for the software and 3 for the database.
> I don't know if this is the right place to ask this
> question.
>
> Thanks again
>
> vinayak
>
>
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