Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:55:44 +1200 From: Mark Ibell <marki@paradise.net.nz> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Cc: FBSD-Q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ORACLE Install Message-ID: <3AE61280.9727C7EF@paradise.net.nz> References: <20010424190708.B37113@everest.wananchi.com>
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You really want to install Oracle 8.0.5 on RedHat 5.2 and grap ORACLE_BASE from there. This is much, much easier! Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > Hi > I was trying to install oracle 8.0.5 today. The behaviour was so wierd! I > was following to the letter linuxeme-oracle.html from the handbook. > I had do much more than is in the HOWTO.....I guess once I succeed I will > try to write down all steps (without the tech details of course because I > don't have the strength to go against Marcell ;-) > > One of the few things one has to do is to add a group called 'dba' and add > oracle user you created to this group. Again you have some mount points to > create in $ORACLE_BASE ... _and_ there is a file in /orainst/bin called > gensyslib in which you have to add a /bin so that cat is /bin/cat. > Instead of patching the files as in the HOWTO, I was installing from the > CD so I just made symlinks to chown and chgrp to the location where the > oracle scripts would thing they are. > > So far I have a failure which I hope someone has an idea about: This was > quite later into the install. > > [snip] > > (( OIERR-SYSTEM: make -f ins_rdbms.mk ORACLE_HOME=/home/oracle/8.0.5 > install )) > --------------[ rdbms.ins 2640]---------------------------------- > Action: Relinking Error. The executables for Oracle8 Standard > (RDBMS) were not made successfully. Please check the log file > (/home/oracle/8.0.5/orainst/install.log) and repeat the installation > procedure for Oracle8 Standard (RDBMS). > --------------[ rdbms.ins 2643]----------------------------------- > > [snip] > > TIA > > -Wash > > -- > Odhiambo Washington Wananchi Online Ltd., > wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse > Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., > Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286, 00100-NAIROBI,KE. > > "Deep" is a word like "theory" or "semantic" -- it implies all sorts of > marvelous things. It's one thing to be able to say "I've got a > theory", quite another to say "I've got a semantic theory", but, ah, > those who can claim "I've got a deep semantic theory", they are truly > blessed. > -- Randy Davis > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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