Oracle Installation

[Ravi Vyas]

I am in charge of an rp2470 running HP-UX 11 (I'm not sure it runs 11i). I've been asked to convert this into an Oracle Data Server running Oracle 9i R2 Eneterprise Edition for development (not production). I've been able to configure the basic things such as network card, ftp access, etc, and also figured out how to extend the logical volume, etc. The problem is: THE SERVER DOES NOT HAVE A GRAPHICS BOARD. As far as I know, Oracle 9i cannot be installed in character mode. Is it possible to install Oracle 9i on thic machine at all? Thanx in advance...

[IT_2007]

You don't have to have GRAPHICS board to install oracle in GUI mode. You can login from any windows server which has Reflection software running to support X windows and then login to Unix server. Once you login export your display to windows IP address.

export DISPLAY=192.142.11.12:0.0

Assuming 192.142.11.12 is your Windows IP.

then launch oracle installation.

[Ravi Vyas]

Does 'Exceed' qualify as a reflection software? Or, can I use some other utility which is widely available? Problem is, I used Exceed to set the kernel parms, and then when I restarted the server, I could no longer access the CDE login prompt from my Win XP machine. No other changes were made, except restarting the HP server. I also found out that the SLSd_daemon was no longer being started automatically (can manually start it), and I really don't know if the two are interconnected. Exceed is showing the IPs of two other Solaris servers running the CDE. So, I want to know if the problem (with Exceed) is in the Server or in the Windows PC - with the local configuration.

[Coolmar]

Yes, Exceed is another xwindows software you can run locally from your desktop. Make sure that the "dtlogin" process is running on your HP system as well.
I believe Oracle requires you to install JRE/JDK as well before you can install Oracle from GUI.

HTH,
S.

[spex]

Hi Ravi,

If you generate an Oracle response file, you don't even a GUI for installation.

Oracle 9i â Silentâ Installation
http://www.oraclemagician.com/mag/magic1.pdf

PCS

[Ravi Vyas]

Many thanx for the suggestions... I will summarize my position:~
I don't need to have a graphics board on the rp2470 - that's a comforting piece of information :-)
I have Exceed v 6.2 on a Win XP machine and I have connected to the server (and got the CDE prompt, window manager etc before)
I modified the kernel from my XP machine and restarted the server
The kernel was successfully changed
Now it does not run the dtlogin and SLSd_daemon processes (don't know if they are essential), but I'm told the dtlogin is essential
I have also noticed that a program which used to run earlier - probably taking a lot of memory - the Marconi MV 36 Element Manager - is also not running since the kernel upgrade
Possibly the cause of this is that I changed the memory sizing (SHMMAX) from aroung 700 MB to 1500 MB (the system has 3 GB RAM, about 80 percent of it was free). I suspect this might have been used by ingres and nmcman (the Marconi process). I might add that I need neither of these processes to work; i am told to use this server purely as an Oracle development machine.

I think my position is clear: configure this HPUX server as an Oracle 9i Data Server, without a graphics board.

Thanx in advance.