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.
> > 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.
>
>
> No need to do this. I just created a /oracle mountpoint off of / and let the
> installer do it's stuff.
>
> a few words of advice -
> 1- the 8.1.6 installer has problems when running under kde. Do yourself a favor
> and use a different window manager for the install.
>
> 2 - when creating your database, allow dbassist to creat a script, then exit
> all window managers and run the script. The database creation phase of the
> install is very memory intensive, and can use all the ram you can get.
>
> 3 - go th http://www.orasoft.org and grab all of the goodies. Some good stuff
> there.
>
>
>
> --
> Alex
> (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
The release notes say that a minimum of 128MB are required to install the
Oracle product. Has anyone tried it with less??
--
D.M.(Mike) Mattix
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(with a 128MB 200MHz Pentium to try this on...)
