Hugh Brock on Thu, 9 Mar 2000 22:15:24 -0500 (EST) |
Michael Leone writes: > Hugh, why is a SuSE Oracle install so much easier than that Preparation > H-inducing Red Hat install? > It's all in the tarball they give you to go along with your Oracle install. Basically, you set your machine up with users, partitions, etc. the way Oracle says to. Then you copy the entire Oracle binary onto your HDD. Then you untar the tarball, which has: 1. The correct JVM to run the installer without barfing; 2. the 8.1.5.0.1 patch; and 3. a script that applies the 8.1.5.0.1 patch to the Oracle binary pre-installation, and also patches a bunch of bugs in the Oracle makefile and install scripts. Oh, and it also has a handy set of installation instructions that actually make sense. So you run the script on your Oracle binary, and then start the Oracle installer and it works. Perfectly. Without even a hiccup, all the way through to the end. It's astonishing, really. Anyway, that's the kind of thinking that characterizes SuSE, in my experience. They don't do anything halfway. PLEASE NOTE that I'm not trying to knock other Linux distros (several of which I use and like). I just appreciate somebody going out of their way to make my life easier. --Hugh ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://plug.nothinbut.net Announcements - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug
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