URL for Free Oracle Linux DVD ?

hi,
can you provide me the URL where i can request for Free Oracle Linux DVD ? i am new to oracle /unix
thanks in advance

Hi,
See http://www.oracle.com/webapps/dialogue/dlgpage.jsp?p_ext=Y&p_dlg_id=5659298&src=5634329&Act=44 for form to request free Oracle Unbreakable Linux DVD.
Regards,
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John Santos

I have recently come across an interesting way to stress-test a CPU by using the command:
yes > /dev/null
For instance:
$ yes >/dev/null &
[1] 29865
$ yes >/dev/null &
[2] 29866
$ ps au
USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root      3147 0.0 0.0   3808   492 tty1     Ss+ Oct19   0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty1
root      3148 0.0 0.0   3808   492 tty2     Ss+ Oct19   0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2
root      3149 0.0 0.0   3808   496 tty3     Ss+ Oct19   0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3
root      3150 0.0 0.0   3808   496 tty4     Ss+ Oct19   0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4
root      3151 0.0 0.0   3808   492 tty5     Ss+ Oct19   0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5
root      3152 0.0 0.0   3808   492 tty6     Ss+ Oct19   0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6
root      3258 0.0 0.1 79748 5732 tty7     Ss+ Oct19   0:02 /usr/bin/Xorg : 0 -br -audit 0 -auth /
oracle   26302 0.0 0.0 66200 1648 pts/1    Ss   Oct20   0:00 -bash
oracle   29865 57.5 0.0 58920   520 pts/1    R    03:18   0:04 yes
oracle   29866 48.3 0.0 58920   520 pts/1    R    03:18   0:02 yes
oracle   29868 0.0 0.0 65612   996 pts/1    R+   03:18   0:00 ps au
(to kill the thing)
$ kill -9 29865
$ kill -9 29866
Regarding video playback, I was wondering about Videolan VLC and it is even available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux :0 Just go to http://www.videolan.org. VLC can play pretty much every common movie format, and it think it is the most versatile video player. You can even use it to stream/boradcast video and connect to several devices, including firewire. I think it pretty much replaced mplayer, though it is still used, i.e. ffmpegX media encoder and converter.
Edited by: Dude on Oct 20, 2011 6:31 PM

Rapidwiz fails on database step for 12.1.1 on Oracle Linux 5.7

I am trying to install Oracle EBS 12.1.1 on Oracle Linux 5.7 64 bit platform.
The issue is that after I followed the requirements including set kernel parameters by using the oracle-validated RPM package, the install fails on database creation step.
Below are logs:
getConnectionUsingSID() -->
JDBC URL: jdbc:oracle:thin:@ebsdb01:1526:VIS
Exception occurred: java.sql.SQLException: Io exception: The Network Adapter could not establish the connection
Trying to connect using SID as ServiceName
getConnectionUsingServiceName() -->
JDBC URL: jdbc:oracle:thin:@(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=ebsdb01)(PORT=1526))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=VIS)))
Exception occurred: java.sql.SQLException: Io exception: The Network Adapter could not establish the connection
Trying to connect using SID as ServiceName.DomainName
getConnectionUsingServiceName() -->
JDBC URL: jdbc:oracle:thin:@(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=ebsdb01)(PORT=1526))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=VIS)))
Exception occurred: java.sql.SQLException: Io exception: The Network Adapter could not establish the connection
I checked network interfaces and can ping the hosts. Here is my network /etc/hosts file:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
112.2.2.10 ebsapp01.local.com ebsapp01
112.2.2.11 ebsapp02.local.com ebsapp02
112.2.2.20 ebsdb01.local.com ebsdb01
Any ideas how to solve this issue? I even used latest release of Rapid Install wizard and no luck.

RDA is a diagnostic script for looking at requirements and settings from MOS.
I run this way:
perl rda.pl -T hcve
with results:
Test "Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 (12.1.1) Preinstall (Linux x86 and x86_64)" executed at 01-Feb-2013 20:05:23
Test Results
~~~~~~~~~~~~
ID NAME RESULT VALUE
====== ==================== ======= ==========================================
A00100 OS Type RECORD OL5 64
A00200 OS Certified? PASSED Adequate
A00210 RPM OL4/32 OK? SKIPPED Not Oracle Linux 4 32-bit
A00220 RPM OL4/64 OK? SKIPPED Not Oracle Linux 4 64-bit
A00230 RPM OL5/32 OK? SKIPPED Not Oracle Linux 5 32-bit
A00240 RPM OL5/64 OK? FAILED [libstdc++-devel(i386)] not installed
A00241 RPM OL6/32 OK? SKIPPED Not Oracle Linux 6 32-bit
A00242 RPM OL6/64 OK? SKIPPED Not Oracle Linux 6 64-bit
A00250 RPM RH3/32 OK? SKIPPED Not Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 32-bit
A00270 RPM RH4/32 OK? SKIPPED Not Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 32-bit
A00280 RPM RH4/64 OK? SKIPPED Not Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit
A00290 RPM RH5/32 OK? SKIPPED Not Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 32-bit
A00300 RPM RH5/64 OK? SKIPPED Not Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 64-bit
A00301 RPM RH6/32 OK? SKIPPED Not Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 32-bit
A00302 RPM RH6/64 OK? SKIPPED Not Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 64-bit
A00310 RPM SLES9/32 OK? SKIPPED Not SuSE Linux Enterprise 9 32-bit
A00320 RPM SLES9/64 OK? SKIPPED Not SuSE Linux Enterprise 9 64-bit
A00330 RPM SLES10/32 OK? SKIPPED Not SuSE Linux Enterprise 10 32-bit
A00340 RPM SLES10/64 OK? SKIPPED Not SuSE Linux Enterprise 10 64-bit
A00342 RPM SLES11/64 OK? SKIPPED Not SuSE Linux Enterprise 11 64-bit
A00350 Motif Link PASSED MotifLinkOK
A00360 ENV Variable Unset SKIPPED Not SuSE Linux Enterprise 10
A00370 Got Software Tools? PASSED tools_found
A00400 IP Address RECORD 122.2.2.2
A00410 Domain Name RECORD local.com
A00420 DNS Lookup FAILED nslookup IP_address
A00430 /etc/hosts format PASSED Adequate IPv4 entry
A00440 SysNetw File PASSED SysNetOK
A00450 NoNetwProf File PASSED OK
A00460 DNS Settings RECORD DNSOptionsOK
A00470 Net Service Access? PASSED NonExist
A00480 Port 6000 PASSED Free
A00500 Kernel Params OK? PASSED KernelOK
A00510 Port Range OK? FAILED HighValue
A00520 Limit Processes PASSED Adequate
A00530 Limit Descriptors FAILED Less than 65536
A00600 ApplTierDirectory RECORD /d01
A00610 A_T Valid? PASSED ATexists
A00620 A_T Permissions OK? PASSED CorrectPerms
A00630 A_T Disk Space PASSED OK
A00640 Space in tmp PASSED AvailableI do not understand why I have to ask for the Doc ID 3 times!
If you are running the one in (RDA 4 - Health Check / Validation Engine Guide [ID 250262.1]), then I believe it is only available for "Linux-x86 Platforms" (32-bit).
2) I notice issue with DNS configuration:
[root@ebsdb01 rda]# nslookup 122.2.2.2
Server: 122.2.2.2
Address: 122.2.2.22#5
** server can't find .in-addr.arpa.: NXDOMAINThis is a network issue, please check with your network admins/team.
3)
So this leads me to my next question, when I use nslookup to search the domain on the DNS server for the host, it resolves successfully. BUT, when I run nslookup against the IP address
it cannot find it in DNS. Would this be the root cause of why my installation keeps failing? I have verified checksums and software is fine. I am still missing a couple RPMs but do not believe this is what causing the install to fail yet in light of the network connection errors that Rapidwiz keeps throwing at me.All network files/settings can be found in (Oracle E-Business Suite Installation and Upgrade Notes Release 12 (12.1.1) for Linux x86-64 [ID 761566.1]).
Thanks,
Hussein

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