Oracle-L: Re: Oracle 9.2.0.1/2 on Mandrake 9

From: Boris Dali <boris_dali_at_yahoo.ca>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:44:03 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00503779.20021114094403@fatcity.com>

Markus Reger <reger_at_mdw.ac.at> wrote: > out of curiosity : did you ever check the filesizes
> in bytes of yr first corrupt downloads with the
> bytes of the files on the download site?

I did. They bear some resemblace, but figures are not exactly the same.
I also compared sizes of files I got on disk (unpacked) after my first and second downloads and they are different for all 3 files, even though only Disk2 was... well, not good. Math doesn't seem to rule here. Go figure

> i'm running O9i too, now wondering if this test
might suffice to
> tell whether the download was successful or not. i
> didn't experience any probs so far until recently
> when i changed/patched to 9.2.0.2.0 - the
> oem/console dosn't display the XML database. the
> flaw is, that it doesn't have some index ...
>
> created a totally new -userdefined,NOT preconfigured
> - database and could successfully display the
> XML-stuff.
>
> installation is on a rh 7.2 - was a rh 8.0 - but on
> rh8.0 the console didn't work - unproperly
> terminated connect string when attempting to connect
> even to a local database. dumped the whole rh 8.0,
> reinstalled the 7.2.
>
> lfw to a reply
> mr
> >>> boris_dali_at_yahoo.ca 11/14/02 17:32 PM >>>
> 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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Re: Oracle 9.2.0.1/2 on Mandrake 9 - solved