On Fri, 03 Mar 2000, Robert Binkley wrote:
> Any one every install Oracle on Mandrake, If so would you mind supplying
> any input
I installed 8i onto a Mandrake 6.0 box, it was somewhat of a nightmare, so get
and read the following docs/web pages, and take the advice given in the next
few lines, hopefully it will make it a bit easier for you than it was for me.
Make sure you have enough ram 128M is a Minimum. The installer starts up a java
vm, and sucks down memory like anything. It helps to have about 256M of swap
also.
Make sure you have the java jre set up correctly The Oracle docs say you need
1.16, but 1.17 works fine also. One of the problems I was having was that the
jdk was installed instead of the jre. You need the jre, not the jdk.
If you are not already a member of Oracle's technet, make sure to join. Lots of
good info on the message boards there and it's free. http://technet.oracle.com
read all of the following web pages (good idea to print them also)
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~jmsalvo/linux/oracle8i.html
http://members.home.com/seanyama/linux/oracle8i.html
http://technet.oracle.com/tech/linux/htdocs/install.pdf
After you finally get it installed, go to http://www.orasoft.org/ and get
Object Manager v1.0
Procedit v3.0
Tablebrowser v3.0
Sqlwork v3.0
then compile and install all of them (Some of the best software for Oracle on
Linux available)
Upgrading to 6.1 did not break the Oracle install, upgrading to 7.0 did break
it, but it was a minor fix (seems Oracle does not like the smp-secure kernel,
but will work with one of the others that is installed with 7.0)
--
Alex
(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
