Re: [TCLUG:1906] Shell Script Question

["Joseph A. Heil" <heilja@dbsource.com>]

Quoting Joseph A. Heil (heilja@dbsource.com):
> Quoting Perry Hoekstra (dutchman@uswest.net):
> > I have a problem with a installation shell script (from my previous
> > posts, you can see I am easily confused).  Some background: I downloaded
> > the Oracle 8.0.5 (production) tar from the net, untarred it using WinZip
> > and burnt it onto a CD. This begs the question, why would you do this?
> > My CD-R is at work, runs on NT and they have a big T-1 line to download
> > a 147MB file.  In addition, a 147MB file extracts to 500MB and then
> > install requires 1GB of free space which I just don't have at home on my
> > Linux box.  Everything went fine and I have shiny CD of 8.0.5 prod.
> > However, when I try to run the installation script, it states that it
> > cannot find 'file or directory'.  I can bring this file up in vi, the
> > first line is #!/bin/sh, and the rest is a normal shell script.  I
> > copied the script over onto my home directory,  to see if it would run
> > outside of the CD and print some echo statements that I had put in but
> > there was no joy in Mudville.  Any ideas I can try?  The following are
> > the first few statements from the script:
> > 
> 
>   Its hard to say what the problem is.  Did you get the tarball from
> the Oracle technet website?  They have all the directions on how to install it.
> Just a shot in the dark here, have you done all the prep work for the install?
> Did you modify you IPCS parameters?  Created the Oracle account? Created the
> dba group? Are you going to install the software using the OFA structure?
> Have you greated mount points for the OFA?   Did you run the oratab.sh
> before ./orainst?  Once you have all the prequistites setup the install takes
> about 20-30 minutes.  I took me 20 minutes on a pII 300mhz 64meg ram, but
> well worth the wait.

  Oh, I thought of a few other prequistites.  Do you have the right kernel
level?  Do you have the right version of glibc?  Those are the two biggest
prequistites you need to satisfy first.

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