Oracle8i on Sun Solaris 8

[Lee]

Hi,
Does any one out there successfully installed Oracle 8i on Sun Solaris 8 ?
I read the installation guide and it says that the o.s required is Solaris
2.6 or 2.7 but didn't mention Solaris 7 or Solaris 8.
I tried to install it on Solaris 8 and get an error message when the
Database Configuration Assistant try to create the database instance
at the end of the installation.

Thanks and regards
Lee

[Jim Gregory]

We're running several 8.1.6 instances under Solaris 8. Oracle just hasn't
updated its on-line ( or printed ) documentation yet.

HTH

--
Jim Gregory
Principal Consultant for Keane, Inc.
Currently assigned to NCR
"Opinions are my own and do not reflect
those of Keane or my clients"
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[Alexey Pashchenko]

Solaris 2.7 is synonym Solaris 7 and Solaris 2.8 is synonym Solaris 8. I heard
Oracle 8.1.6 was approved against Solaris 2.7 but not Solaris 2.8.

[Tomasz Olczak]

I have recently installed 8.1.6 on Solaris 2.7 . It is doing fine.
However I had serious problems trying to install 8.1.5 - it was too
buggy (Oracle does not ditribute this release for Solaris anymore). The
newest release for Solaris is 8.1.7 - go to 'technet.oracle.com' for
details and downloads.

regards,
Tom

[Sandra Fraune]

Hi!

The very first delivered 8.1.6 Versions for Solaris have a bug while
running the cataloge-skripts (There were several false 'end of
line'-marks in it, sorry, i don't know the right english word). You
could correct them manually.

Sandra

In article <3A2CB9B7...@ipartners.pl>,
Tomasz Olczak <olc...@ipartners.pl> wrote:

> I have recently installed 8.1.6 on Solaris 2.7 . It is doing fine.
> However I had serious problems trying to install 8.1.5 - it was too
> buggy (Oracle does not ditribute this release for Solaris anymore).
The
> newest release for Solaris is 8.1.7 - go to 'technet.oracle.com' for
> details and downloads.
>
> regards,
> Tom
>

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Before you buy.

[George Barbour]

Oracle 8.1.6 is certified against Solaris 8.
I use it quite happily, although it will shortly be upgraded to Oracle 8.1.7
because of bugs in 8.1.6. (There's no getting away from them).

George Barbour.

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[Tom Waterhouse]

Lee,

Was your attempted install on Solaris Intel or SPARC? I have not been able to
successfully install Oracle 8i (8.1.6 Enterprise) on Solaris 8 for Intel, and
have made a posting in this group stating this (Oracle 8.1.6 installation
error on Solaris 8 for Intel).

The error that I am getting is an 'out-of-memory' error. Running the
$ORACLE_HOME/admin/oracle/create/oracle1.sh script will generate this error.
My thought was that Solaris had to be modified as described in the Oracle
pre-installation instructions. Perhaps there is a general incompatiblity with
Oracle 8i and Solaris 8.

Tom Waterhouse
Intel Internet Business Solutions

[Lee]

Thanks for all of your reply guys.
In fact I was trying to install Oracle 8.1.7 on solaris 8 (Sun OS 5.8) on
SPARC platform.
I managed to install the beast but can't create the database, I always get
"ORA-03114:not connected to ORACLE" message.
Any one know what has went wrong?

Regards
Lee

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[sle...@my-deja.com]

No help, but I can confirm that I am having the
same error. I am using the 10/00 release of
Solaris 8 and the 8.1.7 release or Oracle81
and have reinstalled the OS from scratch,
modified etc/system as documented, set up
all environment variables as documented, etc.
and get the exact same error on an Ultra 5.

[Allan Plesniarski]

The "out of memory" error is most likely due to shared memory kernel
parameters.
Increase shmmax to 1GB exactly (max 4GB on Solaris) and reboot.
A user process can theoretically grab (shmseg x shmmax) bytes of shared
memory.
The amount of memory the instance is trying to allocate as determined by
the $ORACLE_HOME/dbs/initSID.ora file is in excess of the current
(shmseg x shmmax).

Allan

In article <3A2D8BE8...@intel.com>,

Tom Waterhouse <tomx.wa...@intel.com> wrote:
> Lee,
>
> Was your attempted install on Solaris Intel or SPARC? I have not been
able to
> successfully install Oracle 8i (8.1.6 Enterprise) on Solaris 8 for
Intel, and
> have made a posting in this group stating this (Oracle 8.1.6
installation
> error on Solaris 8 for Intel).
>
> The error that I am getting is an 'out-of-memory' error. Running the
> $ORACLE_HOME/admin/oracle/create/oracle1.sh script will generate this
error.
> My thought was that Solaris had to be modified as described in the
Oracle
> pre-installation instructions. Perhaps there is a general
incompatiblity with
> Oracle 8i and Solaris 8.
>
> Tom Waterhouse
> Intel Internet Business Solutions
>
> Lee wrote:
>

> > Hi,
> > Does any one out there successfully installed Oracle 8i on Sun
Solaris 8 ?
> > I read the installation guide and it says that the o.s required is
Solaris
> > 2.6 or 2.7 but didn't mention Solaris 7 or Solaris 8.
> > I tried to install it on Solaris 8 and get an error message when the
> > Database Configuration Assistant try to create the database instance
> > at the end of the installation.
> >
> > Thanks and regards
> > Lee
>
>

[Tom Waterhouse]

Allan,

That was it. I modified /etc/system as described in the 'Solaris 8 System
Administrator Collection, System Administration Guide, Volume 2'. Did the
trick.

Thanks,

Tom