Installing Oracle

Sun Feb 19 23:39:50 MST 2006

I need to install Oracle 9i or 10 on Red Hat Enterprise 4 and Debian
I have heard the process is real buggy with the Oracle installation displaying 
numerous error messages
which require updates from Oracle which I am told you can only get if you are 
Oracle support.

Anyone out there with experience installing Oracle on Red Hat and Debian?

Fred

evil grin :>

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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 17:45:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Kenneth <madhse at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: /dev/zero
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Ummm, only do that if you're trying to lose everything on hda...

--- Kevin Brown <kevin_brown at qwest.net> wrote:

> > The same thing happened with /dev/random
> > what should I open it with?
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:39:09 -0700
From: Dennis Kibbe <dennisk at linuxquestions.net>
Subject: Re: uninstall red hat enterprise?
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On Sunday 19 February 2006 17:56, Cat Chapman wrote:
> If you're dual-booting with Windows you could always use PartitionMagic.
> It's pretty expensive, but you can find it on any filesharing service if
> you're into that sort of thing. PMagic works great. Just format the
> partition/drive that has RedHat on it and you're good.
> But if Lilo/Grub's config was on RedHat's drive, that's another story...
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> -Cat

No need to resort to proprietary software.  F/OSS tools are available to do
the job.  There are three things you want to do.

1.  Remove the Red Hat partiton(s)

2.  Resize the Windows Partition

System Rescue CD can handle the first two and might have tools to:

3.  Restore the original MBR.  fdisk /mbr will do that and make the Primary
DOS partition bootable.  If you run into trouble Smart Boot Manager is your
friend.

If you have the Red Hat CDs this document on unistalling might help.

http://tinyurl.com/k7cyo

Dennisk

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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:51:19 -0700
From: Darrin Chandler <dwchandler at stilyagin.com>
Subject: Re: /dev/zero
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Kenneth wrote:

>Ummm, only do that if you're trying to lose everything on hda...
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>>>The same thing happened with /dev/random
>>>what should I open it with?
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>>cat /dev/urandom > /dev/hda
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>>evil grin :>
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What he *meant* was:

# dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1

which still provides a good lesson about /dev/random. :)

-- 
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Message: 8
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:16:42 -0500
From: Mike <bmike101 at cox.net>
Subject: Re: /dev/zero
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For some reason I don't think that sounds like much of a good idea!

On Sunday 19 February 2006 08:37 pm, Kevin Brown wrote:
> > The same thing happened with /dev/random
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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:18:29 -0500
From: Mike <bmike101 at cox.net>
Subject: Re: /dev/zero
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for some reason I don't think I want to do that either.

On Sunday 19 February 2006 09:51 pm, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> Kenneth wrote:
> >Ummm, only do that if you're trying to lose everything on hda...
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> >>>The same thing happened with /dev/random
> >>>what should I open it with?
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> >>cat /dev/urandom > /dev/hda
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> # dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
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> which still provides a good lesson about /dev/random. :)

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Message: 10
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 21:11:18 -0700
From: Mike Garfias <mike at garfias.org>
Subject: Re: /dev/zero
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Its not a file, you don't open it.  It is a device that spits out zeros (or
random).

Use dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test bs=512 count=1024
then open /tmp/test with your favorite editor.

You need to realize that things under /dev/ are NOT ordinary files.  But unix
is such that it represents everything as a file.

There are four types of files:
Ordinary Files (what you think of as a "file")
Directories (yes, they're files too)
Special Files (IO devices, terminals - think ttys, etc)
Links - Symlinks & hardlinks (yes, they're "files" too!)

You can't just treat them all as files, they are different.  But, there are
some very good reasons for representing them as files.  For instance, if you
wanted to listen to a wav, you could cat some.wav > /dev/mixer to send it to
the mixer device.  Same with a printer cat some.file.txt > /dev/lp/0 - you
might not get what you expect, but it does work.

Mike spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
> The same thing happened with /dev/random
> what should I open it with?
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> On Sunday 19 February 2006 06:44 pm, Gerard Snitselaar wrote:
> > This piqued my interest: "What ?does this look
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> > > like," I thought. So I typed 'jpico /dev/zero' and guess what happened!
> > > NOTHING.
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> > > The enter went to the next line but nothing happened. No pretty colors
> > > and prompt.
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Message: 11
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 21:16:24 -0700
From: "A LeDonne" <aledonne.listmail at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Force user logout?
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On 2/18/06, Kurt Granroth <plug-discuss at granroth.org> wrote:
> On Feb 18, 2006, at 10:40 PM, Alan Dayley wrote:
> > Let's say a user logged into a computer and set the screen saver
> > password (My son did this against house rules to keep his siblings off
> > the computer).  This user is no longer available (He is now in
> > bed).  I
> > don't know his password but I know the root password for the
> > machine (Of
> > course!).  I want to force the user to logout so the machine can
> > cleanly
> > shutdown.
<snip>
> I suppose that depends on your definition of "clean" :-)
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> # su <user>
> $ kill -9 -1
<snip>

You could try kill at lower levels than -9 on the user's processes,
including KDE. I've found kill -TERM (aka kill -3) to work in most
cases.

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Message: 12
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:38:41 -0700
From: Mark Jarvis <mark.jarvis at pvmail.maricopa.edu>
Subject: Re: Force user logout?
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If you can pop up a terminal window and "su -" to root, you can type
"init 6", and you'll get a nice, clean shutdown.

-mj-

A LeDonne wrote:
> On 2/18/06, Kurt Granroth <plug-discuss at granroth.org> wrote:
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>>On Feb 18, 2006, at 10:40 PM, Alan Dayley wrote:
>>
>>>Let's say a user logged into a computer and set the screen saver
>>>password (My son did this against house rules to keep his siblings off
>>>the computer).  This user is no longer available (He is now in
>>>bed).  I
>>>don't know his password but I know the root password for the
>>>machine (Of
>>>course!).  I want to force the user to logout so the machine can
>>>cleanly
>>>shutdown.
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> <snip>
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>>I suppose that depends on your definition of "clean" :-)
>>
>># su <user>
>>$ kill -9 -1
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> <snip>
>
> You could try kill at lower levels than -9 on the user's processes,
> including KDE. I've found kill -TERM (aka kill -3) to work in most
> cases.
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