Release 2 (8.1.6) for Sun SPARC Solaris
A77183-01
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Release 2 (8.1.6) for Sun SPARC Solaris
December 1999
Part No. A77183-01
This document accompanies Oracle8i Release 2 (8.1.6) for Sun SPARC Solaris. Its contents supplement or supersede corresponding information found in the Oracle8i Installation Guide, Release 2 (8.1.6) for Sun SPARC Solaris.
The following topics are covered in this document:
The following hardware is required to install Oracle8i Release 2 (8.1.6) on Sun SPARC Solaris systems.
Disk space requirements differ depending on which products included with Oracle8i Release 2 (8.1.6) you choose to install on your system. See the Oracle8i Installation Guide for complete details. Disk space requirements do not account for the size of your database. A production Oracle database server supporting many users requires significantly greater disk space and memory.
| Installation Type | Required Disk Space |
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Typical |
1000 MB |
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Minimal |
800 MB |
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Custom |
Up to a maximum of 1170 MB |
| Installation Type | Required Disk Space |
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Oracle Management Server |
325 MB |
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Oracle Internet Directory |
690 MB |
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Custom |
Up to a maximum of 920 MB |
| Installation Type | Required Disk Space |
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Administrator |
350 MB |
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Programmer |
260 MB |
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Application User |
150 MB |
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Custom |
Up to a maximum of 470 MB |
To install Oracle8i products included with this release, your Sun SPARC Solaris system must meet the operating system requirements listed the following table.
| OS Software | Requirements |
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Operating System |
Solaris 2.6 or Solaris 7. |
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Operating System Patch |
Use the latest kernel patch from Sun Microsystems. Sun provides patch information at: http://sunsolve.sun.com Solaris 2.6 requires at least kernel jumbo patch revision #105181-15 for successful installation of Release 2 (8.1.6). See the tables in "Java Runtime Environment (JRE)" for patches required on Solaris for the JRE. |
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Operating System Packages |
SUNWarc, SUNWbtool, SUNWhea, SUNWlibm, SUNWlibms, SUNWsprot, SUNWtoo |
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Window Manager |
X-windows must be installed on the system from where the Installer is run. Use any Sun-supported X-windows server, for example, Character mode installs are not supported for Release 2 (8.1.6). See Chapter 3 of the Oracle8i Installation Guide for information on non-interactive installation. |
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Required Executables |
The following executables must be present in the |
The following issues and restrictions can affect the installation of Oracle8i on Sun SPARC Solaris.
If you are using Hummingbird's Exceed X windows emulator while installing and using Oracle8i, set the window manager to run in "Native" mode so that Microsoft Windows functions as the window manager. See your Exceed documentation for instructions on configuring the window manager.
Oracle Corporation recommends that you install Oracle8i Release 2 (8.1.6) products into a new ORACLE_HOME. Do not install Oracle8i Release 2 (8.1.6) into an ORACLE_HOME directory that already contains Oracle products.
If you must install Oracle8i Release 2 (8.1.6) into an ORACLE_HOME that contains 8.1.5 products, remove the 8.1.5 products with Oracle Universal Installer before beginning the new installation.
If you install Oracle8i Release 2 (8.1.6) into an ORACLE_HOME containing 8.1.5 products, the following 8.1.5 products may remain in the ORACLE_HOME and appear in the inventory:
In addition to the above four products, the 8.1.5 version of the JDBC Thin Driver and JDBC/OCI Driver for JDK 1.0.2 are also listed.
Do not remove version 8.1.5 products that remain after the upgrade to Release 2 (8.1.6). Doing so will remove the 8.1.6 versions of these products.
If you install another product category, such as Oracle8i Management Infrastructure, after the successful installation of Oracle8i Server into the same ORACLE_HOME, Oracle Universal Installer will delete the content of the root.sh script during the course of the installation. Before beginning the installation, backup the root.sh script.
$ cp root.sh root.sh.save
If you require the original root.sh script, you can recover it from the root.sh.save file.
Be aware of the following issues when running the Oracle Universal Installer in non-interactive mode.
Installation can no longer be performed using character mode. However, you can configure Oracle Universal Installer to perform a non-interactive installation of Oracle products. The Installer can be run in non-interactive mode directly from your system's X-windows console or via an X-terminal or PC X-terminal on a remote system. For more information on the non-interactive installation of Oracle products, see "Non-Interactive Installation and Configuration" in Chapter 3 of the Oracle8i Installation Guide.
The following response files listed in "Non-Interactive Installation and Configuration" in Chapter 3 of the Oracle8i Installation Guide are not available on the Oracle8i Release 2 (8.1.6) CD-ROM:
If you perform a Minimal installation type of Oracle8i Enterprise Edition in silent mode, Net8 Configuration Assistant will fail to configure your system at the end of the installation. After the installation, complete Net8 configuration with the Net8 Configuration Assistant by executing netca from the ORACLE_HOME. For instructions on running the Net8 Configuration Assistant in silent mode, see "Non-Interactive Installation and Configuration" in Chapter 3 of the Oracle8i Installation Guide.
If you will perform the first installation of Oracle products on a system with Oracle Universal Installer running in silent mode, you must manually create the oraInst.loc file. This file specifies the directory where the Installer creates the inventory of Oracle products installed on the system. Before creating this file, read and complete the tasks detailed in Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of the Oracle8i Installation Guide.
To create the oraInst.loc file:
root user.
$ su
/var/opt/oracle directory.
# mkdir /var/opt/oracle
/var/opt/oracle directory.
# cd /var/opt/oracle
oraInst.loc with the following two lines of content:
inventory_loc=inventory_directory inst_group=
Set inventory_loc to ORACLE_BASE/oraInventory.
For example, if ORACLE_BASE is /u01/app/oracle, then inventory_directory should be /u01/app/oracle/oraInventory.
Include, but do not set, inst_group= on the second line.
The JRE shipped with Oracle8i is used by Oracle Java applications such as Oracle Universal Installer and is the only one supported to run with these applications. Customers should not modify this JRE, unless it is done through a patch provided by Oracle Support Services.
The Solaris patches listed in the two following tables are required or recommended for JRE 1.1.8_10 and can be obtained from:
http://sunsolve.sun.com
The following issues can affect installation of Oracle8i products.
If you re-install Oracle8i Server into an ORACLE_HOME where Oracle8i Server Release 8.1.6 is already installed, you must also re-install any product options, such as Oracle Partitioning, that were enabled before you began the re-installation.
During a Custom installation of Oracle8i Server, if you do not choose to create a database when prompted by Oracle Universal Installer, Oracle Database Configuration Assistant will be present in the window invoked by the Optional Configuration Tools button that appears at the end of the installation. However, you cannot run Oracle Database Configuration Assistant from this window (Bug 1098669). Run Oracle Database Configuration Assistant from the ORACLE_HOME using the command dbassist.
If you use the Custom installation type of Oracle8i Enterprise Edition to install Oracle Advanced Security into an existing ORACLE_HOME that already contains Oracle8i Enterprise Edition, you must install Oracle Advanced Security separately from any other product options, such as Oracle Partitioning. Unless you install additional product options separately from Oracle Advanced Security, installation will fail.
When installing Oracle Enterprise Manager products, be aware of the following:
Several products included with Oracle8i Release 2 (8.1.6) are now directory-enabled and can take advantage of an LDAP v3 directory server such as Oracle Internet Directory. Oracle8i Release 2 (8.1.6) includes a restricted use version of Oracle Internet Directory version 2.0.6 for Sun SPARC Solaris that may only be used in conjunction with Oracle's directory-enabled components and products such as Net8, Oracle Advanced Security, Oracle8i Server, and all future directory-enabled Oracle products.
Oracle corporation recommends that you install Oracle Internet Directory on a system that does not already have an Oracle8i database. Unless it detects an existing database in the ORACLE_HOME where it will install Oracle Internet Directory, Oracle Universal Installer automatically installs the necessary software and creates the datafiles for an Oracle version 8.1.6 database. This database should only be used to store Oracle Internet Directory information.
You cannot de-install Oracle JServer separately from other products installed with Oracle8i Release 2 (8.1.6). De-installing Oracle JServer causes Oracle Universal Installer to remove Oracle8i Server and other products dependent on Oracle JServer from your system.
When you use Oracle Database Configuration Assistant to create a Custom database that includes Oracle JServer, be aware that it can take over an hour to finish loading Oracle JServer into the database depending on your system's hardware configuration.
In a Typical, silent installation of Oracle8i Release 2 (8.1.6), Net8 Configuration Assistant does not configure an IIOP listening end point to provide access to Oracle JServer. After installation, start the Net8 Configuration Assistant from the command line and configure an IIOP end point for the listener called "LISTENER." For more information, see the Net8 Administrator's Guide.
The size of the raw device that you create for the SYSTEM tablespace must be at least 250MB. This requirement supersedes the corresponding file size requirement listed in the Oracle8i Parallel Server Setup and Configuration Guide. For more information on creating raw devices on Sun SPARC Solaris systems, see the Oracle8i Administrator's Reference.
To install Oracle8i Release 2 (8.1.6) with Oracle Parallel Server enabled, you cannot run Oracle Universal Installer from a CD-ROM (Bug 1118108). You must run Oracle Universal Installer from a directory in a writable file system. Copy the CD-ROM to a drive accessible from the node in the cluster where you will run the Installer. For example:
$ cp -r /cdrom /u01/oracle_inst $ cd /u01/oracle_inst/oracle8i $ ./runInstaller
To successfully install Oracle Parallel Server, choose the Custom installation type. If you choose Typical, Oracle Database Configuration Assistant will fail to create the database on the cluster. In this case, use Oracle Database Configuration Assistant to create the database on the cluster after installation. See the Oracle8i Installation Guide for more information on using Oracle Database Configuration Assistant.
Be aware of the difference between Oracle Parallel Server Manager and Oracle Parallel Server Management:
This section modifies information found in Appendix A, "Oracle8i Products" of the Oracle8i Installation Guide. The following products included in Oracle8i Release 2 (8.1.6) have the version numbers shown below:
Be aware of the following updates to the first three tables of Appendix A:
In addition to this release note and the Oracle documentation which you may have received on CD or in printed form, there are several other valuable sources of technical information available to you:
The Oracle8i Administrator's Reference for Sun SPARC Solaris, and the Oracle8i Installation Guide for Sun SPARC Solaris are available online on the Oracle8i software CD-ROM. To access the documentation in HTML and PDF formats, use a web browser running on a UNIX system to open the index.htm file at the top level of the Oracle8i CD-ROM. This file contains links to product and Solaris-specific documentation.
The following websites have the most current information about products included with this release:
Check the Release Notes and README files in the $ORACLE_HOME/relnotes directory before using Oracle8i. The README files are uncompressed and linked to the HTML file index.htm located at the top level of the CD-ROM.
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