Has anyone gotten Oracle 8.1.7 installed on Mandrake 8.0?

Ivan Samuelson

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Aug 11, 2001, 10:34:00 AM8/11/01

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I've seen posts that apparently people have gotten it to work.

I have applied all the patches to Mandrake from the Mandrake update tool
(including the glibc patch).

I have also recompiled the kernel so that the shmparam.h file contains
the following parameter:

#define SHMMAX 0x4000000

Before, I was running Redhat 7.x with no problems. I kept the same setup
for the Oracle account.

However, when I run the runInstaller program and click on any of the
buttons on the bottm (Exit, Help, Installed Products, Next), nothing
happens. I can't find any error messages or anything else.

However, if I press the Deinstall Products or About Oracle Universal
Installer buttons, they seem to work.

I'm attempting to run Oracle on Mandrake 8.0 and my system is as follows:

AMD K6-2 500
128 megs of RAM
Maxtor 30 gig harddrave

Anyone else had any luck in getting Oracle 8.1.7 to install and run
properly on Mandrake 8.0? I understand it's not supported by Oracle, but
since Mandrake is based on Redhat, I would think it should run and I like
Mandrake better than Redhat.

Thanks for any help in this problem.
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Dave Uhring

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Aug 11, 2001, 11:35:49 PM8/11/01

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Ivan Samuelson wrote:

> I've seen posts that apparently people have gotten it to work.
>
> I have applied all the patches to Mandrake from the Mandrake update tool
> (including the glibc patch).
>
> I have also recompiled the kernel so that the shmparam.h file contains
> the following parameter:
>
> #define SHMMAX 0x4000000
>
> Before, I was running Redhat 7.x with no problems. I kept the same setup
> for the Oracle account.
>
> However, when I run the runInstaller program and click on any of the
> buttons on the bottm (Exit, Help, Installed Products, Next), nothing
> happens. I can't find any error messages or anything else.
>
> However, if I press the Deinstall Products or About Oracle Universal
> Installer buttons, they seem to work.
>
> I'm attempting to run Oracle on Mandrake 8.0 and my system is as follows:
>
> AMD K6-2 500
> 128 megs of RAM
> Maxtor 30 gig harddrave
>
> Anyone else had any luck in getting Oracle 8.1.7 to install and run
> properly on Mandrake 8.0? I understand it's not supported by Oracle, but
> since Mandrake is based on Redhat, I would think it should run and I like
> Mandrake better than Redhat.
>
> Thanks for any help in this problem.
>

>

I was able to run Oracle-8.1.7 using Mandrake-8.0 with the upgraded glibc.
Never tried to install it using Mandrake. I loaded RH-6.2 onto /dev/hdb to
do the install.

aflinsch

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Aug 13, 2001, 1:10:07 PM8/13/01

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Ivan Samuelson wrote:

>
> However, when I run the runInstaller program and click on any of the
> buttons on the bottm (Exit, Help, Installed Products, Next), nothing
> happens. I can't find any error messages or anything else.

This is going to sound stupid, but make sure that your numlock is off.