> Greetings,
>
> We are currently in the process of setting up the curriculum for teaching
> the Oracle database system here at the University of Advancing Computer
> Technology. I feel that it would be a good idea to teach Oracle
> administration on some sort of UNIX platform, and I am very interested in
> the possibility of using LINUX as a platform, due to its appeal as a PC
> based system.
>
> I have talked to Red Hat, and Caldera. Red Hat did not recommend 7.0 as a
> platform. They do have a special version of Red Hat dedicated to Oracle,
> but it costs $2500--obviously not a solution for my students.
>
> Caldera encouraged me to wait until the next kernal comes out, which may
> be a good idea.
>
> I was just wondering if there is anyone who has implemented Oracle using
> Debian as a platform. I am particularly interested in Debian because it
> seems to be less commercialized than some of the others.
>
> I would appreciate feedback anyone might have about setting up Oracle
> servers on Debian LINUX. Our networking lab has Intel based systems
> (Pentium) with removable hard drives, and 64 MB of RAM. I would like to
> teach an implementation which would be easy for students to put together
> on their own with very low cost.
>
I installed oracle on debian potato. It requires a minimum of 128Mb
ram for Oracle 8.1.7. It also takes up about 900Mb disk for a full
install of all the goodies. A minimum install would be about 600
or 700Mb. I don't know if it will run on woody or not. I started
out using 8.1.6 and it will not work on the new glibc without some
patches. I had to go back to potato from woody :(
Search the list for the last month or 2 to get detailed
info. Mail me directly if you need any more info. Here are some
tricks:
/bin/sh -> /bin/bash
/bin/awk -> /usr/bin/awk (i used gnu awk (i think))
requires x and an approved window manager (gnome/sawmill works
as does fvwm (if you are plain vanilla like me))
There is a bashism in the runInstaller program and it looks for awk
in /bin. There may have been another one that I don't remember.
Just read the error messages and you should be ok.
jim
> Any help would be sincerely appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric D. Langager
> College of Software Engineering
> University of Advancing Computer Technology
> www.uact.edu
>
>
>
