after mounting a CD

[Denton Williams]

Hi All,
I am trying to install Oracle and have successfully mounted the CD, however I am unable to run the setup script that is listed when I list the files in the directory. It seems like the filenames are concartinated. The oracle documentation lists the file to run as:

RunInstaller

and the listing I have when i do an ls is:

RUNINSTA.;1

Please help.
Dee

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

If you are installing the CD as a
straight mount as opposed to a pfs
mount use this:

mount -F cdfs -o cdcase /dev/dsk/c0t6d0 /cdrom

or if it is in Rockridge format use these
instructions.

Add this entry to /etc/pfs_fstab

/dev/dsk/c5t2d0 /SD_CDROM pfs-rrip xlat=unix 10

Mount the cd in the drive

# nohup /usr/sbin/pfs_mountd &
# nohup /usr/sbin/pfsd &
# /usr/sbin/pfs_mount /SD_CDROM

Make sure the directory is created and you
have not got your shell in that directory at
the time of mounting.


HTH
-Michael

[erics_1]

Denton,

Oracle cd's need to be pfs_mounted. Check out this document on how to pfs_mount cdroms on the knowledge base. Document number S3100001252.

Regards,
E

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Denton,

The Oracle CD should be mounted using pfs_mount. this is the procedure,

edit /etc/pfs_fstab file and add this entry,

/dev/dsk/c5t2d0 /SD_CDROM pfs-rrip xlat=unix 1 0

Here c5t2d0 is the device file for the cdrom. Substitute the one appropriate for your system. Create a file called /etc/pfs_fstab if it does not exist. Make sure you have NFS server and client enabled on the host. Now do this, Make sure /SD_CDROM directory exist under /

# nohup /usr/sbin/pfs_mountd &
# nohup /usr/sbin/pfsd &
# /usr/sbin/pfs_mount /SD_CDROM

Run the oracle installer program and when asked do a pfs_umount and pfs_mount to replace the CD if you are loading 8i.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Krishnan Viswanathan]

Remember pfs mounts are always dicey since they tend to hang most of the times (You will get a message saying "NFS server not responding" if you dont follow all the pfs_mount /pfs_umount instructions properly).

pfs_mount is not HP's supported product.

It is best recommended to mount the cdrom on a development server, copy the contents of the cd and then tar the file to the server where you want to install Oracle.

[Denton Williams]

Thank you very much for your help Guy's...

Dee.