Re: Oracle installation problems

t_pascal_at_my-deja.com wrote:

> I'll assume since the vote was unanimous that it's just me. I will
> state, however, that I have not seen one single "pop the CD in and go"
> installation, ever. In fact, the best consultants I've seen have the
> binaries and base DB in some image format and cp or tar the damn thing.

Then you'd better find a better class of consultants. I teach a RAC class once each month where one exercise is the installation of the Oracle binaries on Redhat Linux AS 3. Not once in the last 15 months, usually with 8 students, has an install failed.

Then, of course, we read and follow the installation instructions.

> The Linux installation is just ridiculous. Yes, approved RedHat AS 3.0
> installation. The setup required two OS patches and one runInstaller
> patch just to get the installer running (thanks puschitz). Even after
> installation, the dbca file wasn't installed. One of our better DBAs
> tracked the obscure problem down to a missing ORACLE_BASE environment
> variable. I've never seen that be a problem before, in fact, I'm
> looking at the Oracle install documentation, right in front of me right
> now, which clearly states that it is an OPTIONAL environment setting.
>
> I guess having a working database is optional.
>
> But what do I know? I'm clearly wrong.

Like I said ... we follow the instructions. So having read the instructions we get everything staged and then the installation is a breeze.

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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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