Thanks Warren. I'm digging through their technet right now. It seems
like they omitted a lot of important info on the cd that shipped.
I hope to have my own document up for public inspection tomorrow.
--Matt
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On Sun, 5 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have loaded 8i from Oracle's free download and created the environment.
> The test DB was created and tested OK. (which implied that 4 and 5
> worked). Additionally I have loaded DBI abd DBD-Oracle and am preforming
> thousaned of transactions through cron-scheduled jobs regularly, not inly
> to the local database but also to remote O8i databases on NT machines.
>
> It all went seamlessly once I upgraded to RH 6.1. Under 6.0 I fought with
> it for 2 weeks to no avail.
>
> Hope it helps,
> Warren
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (just an alias for this list to sort easier)
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> On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >
> > Has anybody done the following things successfully:
> >
> > 1) Installed the free version of oracle 8i.
> > 2) Created a proper oracle environment.
> > 3) Created a test database.
> > 4) Got the database to start.
> > 5) Actually performed database transactions using the test database.
> >
> > This is oracle 8i mind you. The commercial version 8.0.5.0.0 + patches
> > will work ok, but the crackmonkeys that put 8i together did not
> > clearly document how to get 8i to do all of the above. The installer that
> > shipped has some problems to say the least, and the documentation has much
> > to be desired. :-\
> >
> > I think that I've successfully done 1 and 2, and I'm working on 3, 4, and
> > 5.
> >
> > I'm trying to put together a howto document on getting the free 8i version
> > not only to install, but to get it to work. If anyone has been able to get
> > further than me, please send me private mail. Again, this is 8i, not
> > 8.0.5.00 + patches.
> >
> > As soon as I make sure my notes are coherent and reasonable to follow, I'm
> > going to post them to my personal webspace.
> >
> > --Matt
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