Re: Installing Oracle 8i or 8.0.5 on RedHat Linux 6.0

Yep! After alot of pain I might add.

I had to resort to doing a custom install of RedHat6. So I can not be sure what fix my initial problems.

However, ensure you install all RedHat6 compatibility libraries & source libraries.
JRE 1.1.6
TCL 7.5 I also noted that the images would not run until I applied the Oracle 8.1.5.0.2 patch.
Once this patch was applied everything appears to work. You must ensure that this patch run is error free otherwise you wont get an oracle image.

Another must..... appears to be a correctly sized swap partition, my test server only had 64Mb of RAM, when my swap file was only 70 + or - a few Mb the server would re-boot every so often. In the end I create a 256Mb swap, but as I said earlier this was created when I decide to do a custom install so somewhere between selecting the compat lib, getting rid of superfluous services, creating a bigger swap file and applying the Oracle patch the install started to work.

Whoops! almost forgot, be sure to install all the font libraries. On the RedHat6 out of the box server install the Oracle Java applets had a small very fat ugly unreadable font displayed. It wasn't until I decided to install every font available that this font became readable.

Regards
Peter Winters
Systems Frustrator
Cairns, Queensland, AUSTRALIA.

GilMeister <gilsm_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:FoAH3H.H3s_at_news.boeing.com...
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone been successful in installing Oracle 8i or 8.0.5 on RedHat
Linux
> 6.0.
>
> I've tried a few times unsuccessfully.
>
> Oracle 8i would either not launch the JRE or not install correctly
(fully).
>
> Oracle 8.0.5 installs fine, however when I try to launch svrmgrl or
sqlplus
> I get
> a memory fault error.
>
> Do I need to install a few patches on RedHat 6.0???
>
> If anyone knows... please help.
>
> Regards,
> Gil
> gilsm_at_hotmail.com
>
>
Received on Thu Jan 13 2000 - 16:45:07 CST