I just saw Don's posting where he suggests using Postgres 7.2.3. Okay.
RedHat 8.0 installation continued
- Make boot disk
- Monitor Configuration
- Customize Graphics Workstation - changed login type to text
- Congratulations, my Linux installation is complete!
- Eject CD and boot disk, restart
Redhat 8.0 updates
- Log in as root
up2date -u
- Oops, up comes a configuration option. Oh yeah, I guess I have to register with RHN (again). Unfortunately, I can't see the first 8 options (bad interface). It says I need to import the RH key.
rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY
up2date -u
- Red Hat Network Registration comes up. I fill everything out.
- After registration, it downloads all the RPMs. This will take a while.
- Then update the kernel:
up2date -dfi kernel
Setting up Oracle 8.1.6
- Following installation docs.
su -
- groupadd dba
- groupadd oinstall
- groupadd oracle
- useradd -g dba -G oinstall,oracle -m oracle
- passwd oracle
- mkdir /ora8
- cd /ora8
- mkdir -p m01 m02 m03/oradata/ora8
- chown -R oracle.dba /ora8
- su - oracle
- Added the lines in to .bash_profile, changing 8.1.7 to 8.1.6
exit
- su - oracle
- env | grep ORA
Looks good.
echo $PATH Looks good.
- I log out and log back in as Oracle.
startx
cd /tmp/Oracle8iR2/
./runInstaller I didn't have the problem some RedHat 8.0 people are supposed to have. It came up fine.
- File locations, clicked next
- UNIX group name: typed in
oinstall, clicked next.
- In a new window:
su -
- cd /ora8/m01/app/oracle/product/8.1.6
- ./orainstRoot.sh
- mkdir -p /usr/local/java
- Clicked retry.
- Available products: clicked Oracle8i Enterprise Edition 8.1.6.1.0 note: I used Standard Edition before, but I can't seem to find the disk for it. Oracle told me (IIRC) that as long as I don't use the Enterprise Edition features, that's okay. Click next.
- Installation types: custom
- Available Product Components: default + "Oracle SQLJ 8.1.7.0," "Oracle Protocol Support 8.1.7.0.0," and "Linux Documentation 8.1.7.0.0".
- Component locations: clicked next
- Privileged Operating System Groups: next
- Authentication methods, Choose JDK both didn't show up as according to directions. Probably because this is 8.1.6.1 instead of 8.1.7
- Create database: No
- Oracle product support doesn't show up.
- Summary screen: click INSTALL. Now I take a break.
