RE: Oracle

["Lewis, James M." <Jim.Lewis@alcoa.com>]

> Greetings, 
> 
> We are currently in the process of setting up the curriculum for teaching
> the Oracle database system here at the University of Advancing Computer
> Technology.  I feel that it would be a good idea to teach Oracle
> administration on some sort of UNIX platform, and I am very interested in
> the possibility of using LINUX as a platform, due to its appeal as a PC
> based system.
> 
> I have talked to Red Hat, and Caldera.  Red Hat did not recommend 7.0 as a
> platform.  They do have a special version of Red Hat dedicated to Oracle,
> but it costs $2500--obviously not a solution for my students. 
> 
> Caldera encouraged me to wait until the next kernal comes out, which may
> be a good idea.  
> 
> I was just wondering if there is anyone who has implemented Oracle using
> Debian as a platform.  I am particularly interested in Debian because it
> seems to be less commercialized than some of the others.  
> 
> I would appreciate feedback anyone might have about setting up Oracle
> servers on Debian LINUX.  Our networking lab has Intel based systems
> (Pentium) with removable hard drives, and 64 MB of RAM.  I would like to
> teach an implementation which would be easy for students to put together
> on their own with very low cost.  
> 
I installed oracle on debian potato.  It requires a minimum of 128Mb
ram for Oracle 8.1.7.  It also takes up about 900Mb disk for a full
install of all the goodies.  A minimum install would be about 600
or 700Mb.  I don't know if it will run on woody or not.  I started
out using 8.1.6 and it will not work on the new glibc without some
patches.  I had to go back to potato from woody :(
Search the list for the last month or 2 to get detailed
info.  Mail me directly if you need any more info.  Here are some
tricks:
   /bin/sh -> /bin/bash
   /bin/awk -> /usr/bin/awk   (i used gnu awk (i think))
   requires x and an approved window manager (gnome/sawmill works
             as does fvwm (if you are plain vanilla like me))

There is a bashism in the runInstaller program and it looks for awk
in /bin.  There may have been another one that I don't remember.
Just read the error messages and you should be ok.

jim

> Any help would be sincerely appreciated. 
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Eric D. Langager 
> College of Software Engineering 
> University of Advancing Computer Technology 
> www.uact.edu 
> 
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