Hello Tracey,
it really is not friday, yet ;-)
To install Oracle8.1[67] on HP-UX 11.00 you need:
1) setup PFS (portable filesystem) to moutn the CD
2) create user "oracle"/group "dba" and setup his/her
".profile"
3) mount a big enough filesystem for the Oracle codes
and give proper permissions to mount-point and
mounted filesystem
4) start the "runInstaller" as user "oracle" from the
mounted CD using a working $DISPLAY
5) follow instructions of the JAVA GUI
6) unmount the CD (NOT with "umount"!)
7) relax
in more detail:
1) #use "ioscan -fnkC disk" to know the name of your
#CD-drives block-device - say it is "/dev/dsk/c0t0d0"
#and you are going tomount it onto "/cdrom":
#create the "/etc/pfs_fstab" file and the directory:
mkdir /cdrom
echo "/dev/dsk/c0t0d0 /cdrom pfs-rrip xlat=unix 0 0" > /etc/pfs_fstab
#check that the NFS portmapper is running:
ps -ef| grep "rpcbind" # rpcbind is needed!
#start the PFS daemons into background:
pfs_mountd &
pfsd &
2) #create the group for the oracle administrators:
groupadd dba
#create the user as member of the group:
useradd -g dba -m oracle
#create his/her ".profile" containing the env
#variables $ORACLE_HOME and $ORACLE_SID:
echo "#!/usr/bin/sh
export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/product/8.1.7
export ORACLE_SID=DEMO
export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
" > /home/oracle/.profile
#give proper permissions to ".profile":
chown -R oracle:dba /home/oracle
3) #you'll need about 2GB of space for 8.1.7,
#and still about 1.5GB for 8.1.6!
#hence create a filesystem big enough:
lvcreate -L 2048 -n oracle vgXX
mkfs /dev/vgXX/roracle
#create mount-point with proper permissions:
mkdir /u01
chown oracle:dba /u01
chmod 775 /u01
#mount that filesystem, create sub-dirs, set
#proper permissions:
mount /dev/vgXX/oracle /u01
mkdir -p /u01/product/8.1.7 # path as in step 2)
chown -R oracle:dba /u01
chmod -R 755 /u01
4) #switch user-id to "oracle" and set and test $DISPLAY:
su - oracle
export DISPLAY=yourdisplay:0.0
xlock -geom 500x500
#do you see a big xclock on screen?
#YES => close it, OK
#NO => you DO need X-Windows! Get it and come
# back to step 4)
# start the installer without doing a "cd"!!!
/cdrom/runInstaller &
5) #Follow instructions as shown on screen
#when you are told to exchange the CD,
#use the "browse" button to go to the
#root directory "/" and then you will need
#another terminal window where you are
#logged in as "root". Now unmount the CD:
pfs_umount /cdrom
#swap the CDs, and mount the new one:
pfs_mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0 /cdrom
#go back to you Java GUI and use the browser
#dialog to select "/cdrom" again.
6) #When the installation is done, click on "exit"
#in the installer window, and log off as user
#"oracle":
exit
#now unmount the CD:
pfs_umount /cdrom
#you could kill the two daemons "pfsd" and
#"pfs_mountd" now, in that order, without
#options for kill!!!
7) Voila - Oracle 8i is installed!
In order to actually USE it, you will need to
build your kernel with a lot of different parameters,
but you did not ask for that instruction ;-)
Hence, relax!
HTH,
Wodisch
