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 From owner-freebsd-database Thu Aug 23 8:14:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-database@freebsd.org Received: from Millions.Ca (h-207-228-120-32.gen.cadvision.com [207.228.120.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DD0837B401 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:14:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stacy@Millions.Ca) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by Millions.Ca (8.11.1/8.9.3) id f7NFEP738135; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 09:14:25 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from stacy@Millions.Ca) Received: from Cedar.Millions.Ca(192.168.64.8) via SMTP by mail-gw-0.millions.ca, id smtpdR38133; Thu Aug 23 09:14:15 2001 Received: from millions.ca (Maple.Millions.Ca [192.168.64.2]) by cedar.millions.ca (8.11.1/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7NFEFq12470; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 09:14:15 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from stacy@millions.ca) Message-ID: <3B851DC7.B1EBA46C@millions.ca> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 09:14:15 -0600 From: Stacy Millions Organization: Millions Consulting Limited X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgl@yoyo.org Cc: freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing oracle 8.1.7 under freebsd References: <20010823154233.A16471@plig.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Peter Lowe wrote: > 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), Your welcome, I think. I would have a hard time explaining the Ms to my wife and 4 kids :-) > 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. I never saw that one... my first instinct would be a missing directory or a permission problem. [snip] > 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 From mtab(4) { /etc/mtab contains a table of filesystems currently mounted by the { mount(1M) command. "mounted filesystems", you should not have your swap partition in there. Don't know if that is causing a problem or not. I guess I should look at 8.1.7 one of these days... but 8.1.6 is doing every thing I need. If its not broke, don't fix it :-) I would be more likely to go to 9.x -stacy -- Nothing spoils fun like finding out it builds character. - Calvin Stacy Millions stacy@millions.ca Millions Consulting Limited To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message