Re: Help installing Oracle 9i

2002-01-31 Thread Petter Isaksson
Hello Stan,

This is perhaps not helpful at all, but you said any input. Take it
for what it's worth... :) 

Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 The Oracle installer simply core dumps. A kind soul sufested downgrading
 binutils to the potato version and trying. This leaves me with several
 questiosn.
 
 1. Since the installer won;t run at all, isn't it likely that I also need
 to downgrade libc?

I installed O8i over a year ago, on a SuSE-box. It was a 2.2 kernel of some
sort. It worked after some fuzz. If I recall correctly, the
installation program was written in java, and it had a hard time working
with the currently installed JRE. I think I removed the JRE installed
and used the one shipped with the Oracle CD:s. 

I also remember changing some shared-memory options in the kernel and
recompiling. It was stated in the installation manual what I needed to
do. Without these changes, it would dump core.

Now, (again IIRC :) the java installer didn't work 100% correctly anyway, but
I think it generated the configuration file, with all the environment
options, but failed when invoking the real installation program. So
what I did to get it running was to use the installation program to
generate the desired configuration, and then I invoked the real
installer manually. 

 Any inpit, whatsover would eb helpful.

This was definitely a whatsoever, I really hope that it helps
you. If you don't get it running, I think you should consider a SuSE
or Redhat box, they are configured and Oracle compliant. Take it for
what it's worth. Also, I would check out the news groups for oracle,
they helped me sorting it out. (comp.db.oracle? Search on dejanews)

Best regards and good luck!

- Petter
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Help installing Oracle 9i

2002-01-30 Thread Stan Brown
I have installed Oracle 9i on a Progeny machine. The machine has a 2.4.16
kernel, and the libc is libc6  2.2.1-1 , binutils is
2.10.0.27-0.cv. Now I'm trying to install it on a woody machine, witha
2.4.17 kernel. Libc is libc6  2.2.4-7, and binutils 2.11.92.0.12.3.

The Oracle installer simply core dumps. A kind soul sufested downgrading
binutils to the potato version and trying. This leaves me with several
questiosn.

1. Since the installer won;t run at all, isn't it likely that I also need
to downgrade libc?

2. How can I safely downgrade packages like this?

3. Has anyone sucessfully installed 9i on a woody machine?

Any inpit, whatsover would eb helpful.

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