Oracle on Caldera

Question

Hi:
For anyone interested, listed below is a README and an install
script for installing oracle on Caldera OpenLinux 2.3. The only
problems I ran into were not having enough disk space or RAM and
swap space. As long as these are large enough (see the README),
the install seems to go pretty smoothly. Note: there might be
some typos in the stuff below, I just typed it in...
Ann
README:
1. Have OpenLinux 2.3 installed
2. Ensure that you have swap space at least twice as large as
your memory.
3. Install the 1.1.7 v3 JRE in /opt/jre1.1.7_v3 (the jre can be
downloaded from www.blackdown.org).
4. As root, run the orInstall.sh script (listed below).
5. Log out and log back in as user 'oracle'.
6. Place the Oracle cdrom in the cdrom drive (or have the Oracle
tar file extracted somewhere on your hard disk).
7. Chage to the cdrom drive: cd /auto/cdrom (or cd to the
directory where you extracted the Oracle install)
8. Run the runInstaller script.
9. Choose Custom Installation (Typical and Minimum do not work)
10. Go ahead and click "Next" on the Oracle Protocol Support
window although nothing appears in it.
11. When the installer asks you to run root.sh, change the
permissions on root.sh first by changing to the directory where
root.sh is and entering hte command "chmod 755 root.sh".
12. Ignore the warning about the National Character sets.
13. Select to "Create new database files"
14. Ignore the alert about being unable to open
"/u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.5/rdbms/admin/dbmssml.sql"
15. Wait a long time for the database to be created (it took 3
hours on my system).
16. Set the ORACLE_SID environment variable to the SID you chose
during the installation. Make sure you put this into your oracle
user .profile so it will be set the next time you log in.
17. Now you can start the server manager by running
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/svrmgrl and you can login as INTERNAL.
Notes:
orInstall.sh script:
# orInstall.sh
# shell script for setting up oracle environment on OpenLinux 2.3
# Created 10/6/99
# Ann C. Davis
# Caldera Systems
# [email protected]
# Variables
ORACLE_USER=oracle
ORACLE_GROUP=dba
INSTALL_GROUP=osinstall
ORACLE_DIR=/u01
DB_DIR=/u02
ORGRP_ID=800
INSTGRP_ID=801
HOMEDIR=/home/$ORACLE_USER
USERSHELL=/bin/bash
ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_DIR/app/oracle/product/8.1.5
ORACLE_BASE=$ORACLE_DIR/app/oracle
# Create links
echo "Creating link to jre..."
if [ -d /opt/jre117_v3 ]; then ln -s /opt/jre117_v3
/usr/local/jre
else
echo "JRE is not installed in /opt/jre117_v3."
exit 1
fi
echo "Link created"
ln /usr/bin/gawk /bin/awk
# Create Oracle and Oracle database directories
echo "Creating directories..."
mkdir ${ORACLE_DIR}
mkdir ${DB_DIR}
echo "Directories created."
# Create new groups "dba" and "osinstall"
echo "Adding groups..."
groupadd -g ${ORGRP_ID} ${ORACLE_GROUP}
groupadd -g ${INSTGRP_ID} ${INSTALL_GROUP}
echo "Groups added."
# Create new user "oracle"
echo "Creating user 'oracle'..."
useradd -m -g ${ORGRP_ID} -c "Oracle User" -d ${HOMEDIR} -s
${USERSHELL} ${ORACLE_USER}
passwd ${ORACLE_USER}
echo "User 'oracle' created."
# Set directory ownership correctly
echo "Setting directory ownership..."
chown -R ${ORACLE_USER}.${ORACLE_GROUP} ${ORACLE_DIR}
chown -R ${ORACLE_USER}.${ORACLE_GROUP} ${DB_DIR}
echo "Directory ownership set."
# Modify the Oracle user .profile
echo "Modifying .profile..."
echo "DISPLAY=$HOSTNAME:0.0; export DISPLAY" >>
${HOMEDIR}/.profile
echo "ORACLE_HOME=${ORACLE_HOME}; export ORACLE_HOME" >>
${HOMEDIR}/.profile
echo "ORACLE_BASE=${ORACLE_BASE}; export ORACLE_BASE" >>
${HOMEDIR}/.profile
echo "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:${ORACLE_HOME}/lib;
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH" >> ${HOMEDIR}/.profile
echo ".profile modified."
umask 022
echo "Shell script complete. Please log in as user 'oracle'"
echo "then run the Oracle runInstaller script."
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Answer 1

Hi,
I want to know the same thing even thought i'm sure the answer will be something like a stub library (like the patch for 8.1.7). My comment here is to push a little bit the staff at OTN, because SUSE is turning to IBM anyway, and for those who have critical business, Caldera is a very good choice (I install on a Compaq ML570 without any third party drivers, even the SmartArray works well). Anyway, you can forget my comment on Cladera, but you can't ignore that every distro. has a different version of glibc, and th point here is to run 9i and test 9i and finnaly the point where you win a lot : We recommend 9i to our clients.
Thank you and i'll wait for an answer.