I've been told the same thing, but the reasoning was that they couldn't guarantee what was put out for download was actually the correct build. Not sure that's very reassuring, either.
Jim -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 12:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Oracle Corp. finds the checksum concept to be alien. They actually posted these words to me in a tar at metalink, "We don't support servers that are installed via download from otn." I guess "network computing" really is dead. ;) On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 07:54:27AM -0800, Boris Dali wrote: > Ray, right on target! > > After looking for disk errors in dmesg output, > /var/log/messages to no avail, I finally uninstalled > the whole 9.2 OH last night, > re-downloaded/re-burned/re-... and this time > installation of both 9.2.0.1 and a patch went with no > glitches. > > Apparently Disk2 was corrupted/missing files/??? on > downloading/burning/unpacking, but what surprised me > the most is that I didn't get any errors at > gunzip/cpio stage, which I always thought of as a good > indication that software on CDs is valid. This > assumption cost me week and a half of hopeless tries > to make it work... > > On the bright side, some .o, .so etc. files I see in > OUI during installation look painfully familiar... > > Thanks a lot for you help. > > --- Ray Stell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, > Nov 12, 2002 at 01:50:52PM -0800 > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: Boris Dali > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- =============================================================== Ray Stell [EMAIL PROTECTED] (540) 231-4109 KE4TJC 28^D -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Ray Stell INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
