I read some thing and want to be clear about it

[Mr Possibility]

I had earlier sent an email to the forum on my need to install oracle 9i on Linux on a Dell Lattitude Laptop. The config is 20Gig(going to use 10Gig),128Mb ram PetiumIII with board speed of 650MHz. I need this to have a to prep. for Oracle exam as well as have a fell or of oracle database. I was directed to http//otn.oracle.com. I read an article on deploying oracle on Linux By Roko Roic. "Conclusion
You now have a fully featured Oracle installation on your computer. Please remember that Oracle 9.2 is not certified for Red Hat 9, and that this combination is not endorsed in production and deployment environments. As a workstation, however, it is perfectly stable and usable."

What I want to understand is as workstation--- which can mean my laptop. Are my correct or still need to meet other conditionns ?

I will appreciate your assistance.

If anybody has ever deployed Oracle 9i on Linux(Rehhart)9. I will appreciate the steps He/she took during the installation. I want to install on Dell PowerEdge 4400 as well as my laptop for real time experience

Thanks

[Mark Grant]

Yes, it means your laptop will be fine.

They just don't want to take responsibility for a production environment where 24x7 operation is a possibility and lots of money will be lost should it not perform as well as it might.

It also probably means that it will work fine in the above environments too, they just are not 100% sure about it.

[Mr Possibility]

Thanks Grant. What of the second question

can you help out

[Mark Grant]

Sorry, we haven't yet installed Oracle on a linux box, only on HP-UX machines.

I would imagine the installation is the same. In other words, you'll need java installed, a large tempory directory and a place to put your databases, Personally, I think you will need a seperate file system for any achive logs you are going to produce and it is always a good idea to have a seperate file system for indexes too.

While you're at it, you may as well try and use LVM volume groups/logical volumes as that's what you will find in the majority of production calss Oracle installations.

[Claudio Cilloni · Accepted solution]

The installation of Oracle 9.2 on Redhat 9 isn't so clean like in HP-UX. You will find some problems.
I attach to this message some good instructions to install Oracle 9.2 on RH 9. I founded this on the net, but i don't remeber the URL.

hth,
Claudio

[Don_89]

Though, Oracle only offically supports Red Hat Enterprise versions, you should be able to run it on 7.x, 8.x, 9.x .. This site has great info supporting Oracle on RH. http://www.puschitz.com/


BTW, we have 15 servers running Oracle on AS/ES except for one 7.1 box which has been up for 191 days without a reboot.. Impressive..

[Mr Possibility]

Mark and Claud,

I appreciate your reponses. The stuff you attached, even though have not perused it, it really trip me. Its fantastic. Hope to get back to you if I have any issue. We will soon install oracle on our newly purchased HP9000. I should give you a call then

Thanks to you all though I can enumerate your names at the moment

yinka

[Mr Possibility]

I have been religiously reading the steps highlighted in Roco's writeup since the guy talked directly about RH ver9 which is what am going to deploy on. I want to ask if these two commands are thesame.

rpm -Uvh
Replace package_name with each RPM listed above.

Once you have downloaded all of the packages, use the command line rpm tool to upgrade:



% rpm -UVh package_name

The "-Uvh" and "UVh"

Thank

[Claudio Cilloni]

No, they aren't the same. the "V" option is used to verify the package integrity, and this isn't your case. the right options are '-Uvh'.

Ciao,
Claudio

[John Garrott]

I haven't run Oracle on linux, just HP-UX. But you will almost certainly need to bump up the RAM on your laptop. I'm not sure you could even get Oracle 9i to install, let alone startup with only 128 MB.

John