[Gllug] Oracle and Linux

[Ian Northeast]

Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 12:06, Pete Ryland wrote:
> 
>>Wow!  I'm amazed that you got it to work.  Last time I tried installing
>>Oracle on Debian, it required so much "tweaking" of the system that you'd be
>>hard pressed to still call it Debian.  Whereas (following all the rules)
>>Oracle just worked on Redhat without any problems.
> 
> 
> The main obstacle was the Oracle installer - a huge bloated Java
> application requiring an X server to communicate with.

Yes, it is seriously pants. I once tried to use it to install 9iASR2 
(which is much more of a pig than the RDBMS) on my test server which is 
a P500 with 500MB memory and 1GB swap. It froze it solid. Subsequently 
installing it onto a real server with 2.5GB memory with nothing else 
running at the time made it swap.

Once you've got Oracle products installed they do get a lot easier:)

Regards, Ian



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