From owner-freebsd-database Thu Aug 23 7:42:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-database@freebsd.org Received: from armadillo.yoyo.org (armadillo.yoyo.org [195.40.6.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3256137B403 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 07:42:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pgl@yoyo.org) Received: by armadillo.yoyo.org (Postfix, from userid 135) id 04D8243F3A; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:42:33 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:42:33 +0100 From: Peter Lowe To: freebsd-database@freebsd.org Subject: installing oracle 8.1.7 under freebsd Message-ID: <20010823154233.A16471@plig.net> Reply-To: pgl@yoyo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i Sender: owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello! I'm having some problems installing oracle 8.1.7 under freebsd 4.3. I can get the installer to start (-thank- you Ms Stacy Millions), but when I click "Next" after it's finished loading, a little window comes up saying "Loading products list", gets to about 30ish%, and bombs out with the error: There was a problem in accessing the staging area. Please make sure the specified values for "Source" and "Destination" are valid. This is using the defaults in the source and destination fields. If I change the destination field to "/home/oracle" from the default "/home/oracle/OraHome1", it asks me where I want to put the oraInventory directory to store the list of oracle products installed, but still comes up with the above error. I thought it might be mtab file, but I've triple checked and I'm fairly sure it's the right format. Here it is, just in case: [mini:oracle]:~/src/Disk1 $ cat /etc/mtab /dev/ad0s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad1s1 /data msdos rw 1 1 I've read all the documents I can find, and I can't see what I'm doing wrong. Has anybody had this problem and managed to get round it? regards, Peter Lowe. -- This is not the signature you are looking for. Move along. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message