Re: [newbie] Linux on Oracle

2000-10-18 Thread A V Flinsch
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, you wrote: 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 A mountpoint is simply a directory somewhere in your filesystem tree. mkdir will create the directory

[newbie] Linux on Oracle

2000-10-17 Thread Vinayak Pai
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

RE: [newbie] Linux on Oracle

2000-10-17 Thread Wignall, Mark T
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

Re: [newbie] Linux on Oracle

2000-10-17 Thread D.M. Mattix
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, A V Flinsch wrote: On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, you wrote: 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.

Re: [newbie] Linux on Oracle

2000-10-17 Thread A V Flinsch
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, you wrote: The release notes say that a minimum of 128MB are required to install the Oracle product. Has anyone tried it with less?? I had 8.1.5 running on a machine with 96M. I did have to upgrade to 128M to do the install however. Once installed, it ran acceptably

Re: [newbie] Linux on Oracle

2000-10-17 Thread kvinayakpai
0 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

Re: [newbie] Linux on Oracle

2000-10-17 Thread kvinayakpai
AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux on Oracle On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, you wrote: 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.