topic Oracle staging problem in Operating System - HP-UX

Oracle staging problem

khalid rasool_2 — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:06:23 GMT

I have two boxes of itanium RX6600 and RX2660, OS is HP-UX 11iv3, when I tried to install Oracle R12 thru DVD drive it stuck after built 1.8GB (approx) stage area.I thought that's the problem is large fileystem option, but when I checked this option it was enabled.
I tried different media from DVD but result was same.Then I tried to copy these files from DVD to HDD but result was same after 1.8 or 1.9 GB it gave me the error like this,

cp : bad copy to/visr12/StageR12/oraDB/. /SD_CDROM/Disk4/dbts/stage/db177_javam.
zip:read:I/O error
Media is fine I tried this media on HP-UX11iv23 and found no error and all media dumped on HDD successfully.

Re: Oracle staging problem

Gokul Chandola — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:28:27 GMT

Hi,
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This problem is due to no large file supported.
Mean your crated file system is not supporting large files- its default option upto 2 gb.

Solution is that remove all file system and create new with Enable large file support option.

Use SAM and you will get this option in Advance option/other option, when you will crate filesystem.

I have face this problem erlier. Check it and try it, that your file system is support large files or not.

Regards,
Gokul Chandola

Re: Oracle staging problem

khalid rasool_2 — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:34:13 GMT

Dear Gokul
I think there is no need to remove filesystems because filesystems are enabled with large files option.I have checked this to create a dummy file to merge different directories thru "tar" command and after that I created another dummy file with the "cp" command and this was also larger than 4GB.But all creation done HDD to HDD.Might be there is some issue in DVD driver or some kind of limitation in DVD copying which I don't know.This would be interesting for you that there is no issue in 11iv23.

Re: Oracle staging problem

Sandeep_Chaudhary — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:52:31 GMT

try pfs_mount for mounting oracle CD

/usr/sbin/rpc.lockd

/usr/sbin/rpc.statd

pfs_mountd &
sleep 3
pfsd &
sleep 4
pfs_mount -o xlat=unix /dev/dsk/c4t2d0 /SD_CDROM

Re: Oracle staging problem

Dennis Handly — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:10:34 GMT

>Sandeep: try pfs_mount for mounting oracle CD

I'm not sure why you would ever want to use the obsolete and buggy pfs_mount? Is it available still on 11.31?

Re: Oracle staging problem

khalid rasool_2 — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:54:55 GMT

I tried to dump these cds on other server and tried to pick these thru NFS but again facing 2GB problem.

Re: Oracle staging problem

Johnson Punniyalingam — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:40:12 GMT

Hi Khalid,

have tried copy the files with cpio .?

Thanks,
Johnson