Oracle 9i VMS Installation

[Robert Atkinson]

Robin, thanks for the heads-up.

Hopefully this won't effect us, as we don't have any applications - we just use the SQL client interface.

Robert.

[Himanshu_3 · Accepted solution]

Hi Robert,

Adding to the quotes from Robin below are my findings:

- For Oracle to run ODS-5 volume is required although database files could stay in ODS-2 volumes. The installation files (ORA_BASE) and the oracle software (ORA_ROOT) must reside on ODS-5 volume.

-the directory names are mixed case and contain "." in the directory names,necessitating the "^" to tell VMS that the dot is part of the directory name and not a delimiter.

-For the installation latest java is required along with several VMS patches.Once the java or the x-windows install has started oracle then uses its own java from CD.

- The SVRMGRL program is no longer used. Instead, SQLPlus is used for
startup and shutdown as well.

For installation we copied the contents of the CD-ROM to hard disk and then proceeded with the installation as explained in the below procedure:

"Installation Option, Installing Oracle9i from the Hard Drive

You can avoid the need to mount and unmount CD-ROMs during
installation by
copying the contents of each CD-ROM to your system hard drive. You
must have a
file system that is not in use by other applications. You must also
have at least 2.5 GB of disk space available.
1. Copy the CD-ROMs to your system hard drive. Copy the contents of
each
CD-ROM to a directory on a disk. For example:
$ copy disk$disk1:[cdrom]
$ copy disk$disk1:[cdrom]
2. Start the Oracle Universal Installer from the hard disk. The Oracle
Universal
Installer automatically finds the contents of each CD-ROM and does not
prompt
for the location of any CD-ROM during the course of the installation."

Hope you find it useful.

Thanx & Regards,
HP

[Jan van den Ende]

HP,


You
must have a
file system that is not in use by other applications.


Can you explain that in VMS terminology to someone pretty unfamiliar with N*X?
I have a vahue idea as to what might be intended, but either it is irrelevant in VMS, or I misunderstand completely :-(

Cheers.

Have one on me.

Jan

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7.3.2.2.0
7.3.2.3.0 7.3.2.3.0
7.3.2.3.2
7.3.3.4
7.3.3.6 7.3.3.6
7.3.4.3 7.3.4.3
7.3.4.4 7.3.4.4
8.0.3.2.0
8.0.5.0.0 8.0.5.0.0
8.0.5.0.1 8.0.5.0.1
8.0.5.1.0 8.0.5.1.0
8.1.6.0.0
9.0.1.0.0
9.0.1.3.0 9.0.1.3.0
9.0.1.4.0 9.0.1.4.0
8.1.7.0.0 8.1.7.0.0
8.1.7.1b 8.1.7.1b
8.1.7.3.0 8.1.7.3.0
8.1.7.4.0 8.1.7.4.0
9.2.0.2.0
9.2.0.3.0
9.2.0.4.0
9.2.0.5.0

[Robert Atkinson]

Thanks again to everyone who responded.

I feel I have enough information now to make a decision on where we go from here.

Robert.

[Robert Atkinson]

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