A new approach is needed regarding maintenance of Linux images and product installation in general. I'm a strong proponent of server appliances which are pre-packaged with optimized OS and applications. In this case, SLES9 and Oracle would come on a tape or be downloaded for a simple DDR installation onto one or two minidisks. The user would provide: 1)network configuration 2)swap area(s) 3)user data space. Upgrades would consist of replacing the appliance disk with a newer release. The advantages would be: 1)tremendous disk space savings 2)a standardized installation and maintenance process that people can actually understand and almost guarantees success 3)a good counter-arguement to moving everything to blades. What are the chances of such a thing happening?
Ray Mrohs Energy Information Administration U.S. Department of Energy -----Original Message----- From: Yu Safin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 3:19 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Question for Oracle shops On 10/24/05, Tom Duerbusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just been working on Oracle 10g under SLES9. > > I have been looking over at the Oracle website on their Discussion > Forums. I didn't see anything that was zLinux (i.e. mainframe) > specific. > > So I started doing some searches to see how much discussion there was > on zLinux (nothing under installation, except for my post), and I > started wondering.... > > Where is everyone else getting help in the Oracle-zLinux world? > > The Linux390 discussion group (here)? > The Oracle website? > Someplace else? > > Thanks > > Tom Duerbusch > THD Consulting > Tom: It has been a night mare trying to install Oracle 10g under Linux for z-Series. No RPM is available. The java based program to install Oracle uses CPU cycles and memory like they are going out of style. Oracle can't find its modules because it doesn't know about lib64 and so on. It is amazing that we pay for Oracle when MySQL drops in place so easily. The IBM RedBook is vague. In short, now I know why Oracle DBA's are paid so well. have you had any success installing? would you be willing to share your experiences in a how-to? we run SLES 9. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
