Re: Oracle 9.2.0.1/2 on Mandrake 9 - solved

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 <stellr_at_cns.vt.edu> wrote: > On Tue,
> Nov 12, 2002 at 01:50:52PM -0800
>
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