Oracle8i for Intel Solaris installation taking large disk space problem!

I installed Oracle8i Enterprise version in my Intel Solaris7 system. Although the installation was successful and the database can be open automatically with the system rebooting each time, I am still doubt why the whole Oracle8i installation took me more than 1.3 GB in the hard disk, every thing I used the default. The installation guide says it only takes 694 MB for a typical server installation. The installation runs several stages: 1), the complete installation took 564 MB when it shows the installation was successful.
2), following the installation runs a linking process (automatically), it incresed to 986 MB by the time the linking finished successfully. Why the linking took 400 MB space?
3), configuring net8 client and database creation stage: by finishing this stage, the hard disk has consumed to 1.3 GB, I thought the database creation should be within the size of installation.

My installation began with an "oracle" account, the primary group in UNIX is "oinstall", I created two other groups: dba, and osoper, the "oracle" account is also a member of the dba group. The oracle account home is: /export/home/oracle The ORACLE_BASE is : /export/home/oracle The ORACLE_HOME is /export/home/oracle/product/8.1.5

I think I followed the installation guide.

If my installation was right, I think Oracle misleads us by saying the complete installation takes 694 MB. Or, I might haven't installed it correctly following the guide.

Any suggestions for saving the space in installation are welcome.

Zhenming Received on Wed Dec 15 1999 - 13:25:54 CST