I wrote this installation guide after succesfully installing Oracle8 on Gentoo to describe the steps I used in hope that other people will experience a smoth migration of Oracle8 server on Gentoo distribution. For further details please contact me at rodica.balasa@nemesisit.ro The instalation guide is available in html, open office, doc and pdf format: http://nemesisit.rdsnet.ro/zen/oracle8/ http://nemesisit.rdsnet.ro/zen/oracle8/install_oracle8_gentoo.sxw http://nemesisit.rdsnet.ro/zen/oracle8/install_oracle8_gentoo.doc http://nemesisit.rdsnet.ro/zen/oracle8/install_oracle8_gentoo.pdf Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Created attachment 25754 [details] Oracle8 installation guide, doc format
Created attachment 25755 [details] Oracle8 installation guide, pdf format
Created attachment 25756 [details] Oracle8 installation guide, openoffice format
there anyway we could get this into our standard xml format ? or would we need someone on the docsteam to do that ?
Rodica, I need your permission to publish these instructions under the cc-by-sa license (an open license we use for all our documentation).
Marking as "LATER" until we get the approval to place this under the cc-by-sa.
I looked at the cc-by-sa and you have my permission to publish the instructions under this license
Reopening...
Reassigning to docs-team@ due to a too busy schedule on other bugs.
I'll take over ;)
Hi Rodica, would you like to add a little more text explaining what each step does? Doing so will help the readers understanding why such steps are required during the installation process.
no response from Rodica via bugzilla nor email.. marking as later
Sorry, I did not have the time yet to modify the document, I hope this next week I will succeed.
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added extra text to explain each installation step
great! would you provide the url to download the insatllation kit?
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Hi Rodica, My xml conversion is almost done, I have never installed an oracle database before. As a part regarding blackdown jre "Java 1.1.8 is available at one of the www.blackdown.org mirrors or from here: http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/java-linux/JDK-1.1.8/i386/v3/jre118_v3-glibc-2.1.3.tar.bz2" will it work if you can just emerge it from portage? P.S if you plan to update further more, you can just submit them in txt file or notice me that the URL has been updated.;)
Thanks for the news and the sugestion, i did not think at that! I just checked the portage tree, it seems sun jdk and jre versions start from java 1.3, unfortunattely the oracle instalation requires this antique version of java, which is pretty hard to find, on java.sun.com for java 1.1.8 only the solaris version is avaiable :(
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The html version is at: http://dev.gentoo.org/~bennyc/files/oracle8.html please review
FYI, Oracle 9i and 10g are just a tad more recent than that old dying 8i workhorse. Actually I am not going to try this 8i because of all its limitations on basic system packages but you might want to have a look at 9i: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=106527 http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200402/oracle.html 10g: http://www.puschitz.com/InstallingOracle10g.shtml PS: strangely I have never used Oracle on Linux even though I have been using it since version 5 on Netware, AIX and HP-UX. I stopped at 8i. I was going to try 10g soon(-ish). I'll try, but no promise. Not much time before coming W-E anyway.
Just a short time ago Oracle 10 was released, so 8i is quite old, currently all aplications are developped for 9i or newer, which are also easier to install. Actually I had to install Oracle9 on RedHat for a project and so I learned the basics. The problem was when I had to add some features to an old project, and the client had license for Oracle8, the installation was more difficult and there were less threads on the forums. So this guide is mainly for the few that need to work with the old version, probably for commercial reasons.
If commercial reasons are behind this doc (I mean if you think it's mostly interesting for people who stick with 8i for commercial reasons), I don't think this guide should be put up. Why? Because commercial reasons are mostly conservative and migrating an Oracle 8i to a Gentoo server isn't conservative. If an organisation wants to migrate an Oracle DB to a Gentoo server, it'll most likely also upgrade the Oracle DB. I don't have any experience with Oracle 8i, 9i or 10 (I'm a SyBase adept :) but are the changes between 10 and 8i slim? If so, it would probably be beneficial to have the guide explain how to install 10 and then list the differences between 10 and older versions if users request this (so you don't have to do this before getting the doc finalised).
Well, I currently work on a software product that uses Oracle8. The client has oracle 8 installed on a windows server, but I do most of the development on gentoo (i like it more). Instlling oracle8 on any linux distribution except redhat is very tricky, and for gentoo i had very little information, it was hard and I just want to help other people that want to install oracle8 on gentoo aslo. The newer versions of oracle are much easier to install, the existing guides do just fine.
hmm Rod, maybe you should convert this to the newer version? I agree with fellow GDP members. Please let me know if you're planning to work further more. We appreciate your effort ;)
Hi there, In the future I would like to complete the text (maybe as a different document), to include Oracle10 installation guide, but in the short term (next two-three months) I am not able, as I need a different gentoo server, some new hardware and a few free days to try the install. I will make the review to the current text this comming days.
I will mark this as LATER, feel free to reopen this once you're ready :)
Created attachment 30857 [details] reviewed html version, with record changes option from openoffice i added some text at running the installer part about setting the java paths. Someone trying to install oracle8 found the web document and he had some problems with java paths, so I added that to the document. Some small stuff:the code listings start with "#" if the current user is root and with "$" if it is oracle user I also modified the chapters structure.
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