Oracle 8.1.5 on SUSE Linux 7.2 - Is it worth it?
Hello-
I have been trying to install Oracle 8.1.5EE on SUSE 7.2 for
days now and the installation has been the worst I have
encountered in many a year! I am thinking about scapping this
whole thing and moving onto another RDMS. If and when I get
Oracle running on Linux will I be faced with these same
installtion problems in my day to day maintenence? For such a
well known company I sure thought they could come up with
something slicker than this!
Problems so far:
JRE - Too many to list.
OraInstaller:
1. Does not show any Networking options
2. Reports not enough space for a 4GB /u01
3. Even when I select to "not" to run dbassist it does anyways
Patch:
1. I had to dig through mounds of documentation to find this
patch was neccesary.
2. Reboot. ?
dbassist:
1. Unset NLS_LANG etc...
2. SIGFAULTS halfway thru process.
At this point I am ready to bag Oracle and go with PostgreSQL
Sincerely,
Davin Flatten