Hi,

I read from Oracle technology Network that Linux Red Hat Fedora 4 is
recommended to install 10 G 2.
So I downloaded the five ISO files from the Fedora site.
The documentation suddenly indicates that I have to boot from the CD
drive with a "boot.iso" file.
Unfortunately, it doesnot tell how to make this image on a CD R
Also I read a few postings from the fedora mailing lists and many user
give out and declare they just won't go near Fedora any more because of
silly problems.
So my question is: Anyone installed 10 G 2 on a given Linux and lives
happy ever after?

Have a nice day

jbmorla@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I read from Oracle technology Network that Linux Red Hat Fedora 4 is
> recommended to install 10 G 2.
> So I downloaded the five ISO files from the Fedora site.
> The documentation suddenly indicates that I have to boot from the CD
> drive with a "boot.iso" file.
> Unfortunately, it doesnot tell how to make this image on a CD R
> Also I read a few postings from the fedora mailing lists and many user
> give out and declare they just won't go near Fedora any more because of
> silly problems.
> So my question is: Anyone installed 10 G 2 on a given Linux and lives
> happy ever after?
>
> Have a nice day
>

If you created the CD's from the iso downloads, CD 1 should
be bootable - iso is a complete image.

Apart from that, Fedora is not on the list of supported
software - one of the things Fedora suffers from is that
it is on the move, and there are too many releases per year.

In stead, there are several no cost Red Hat Server derivate s,
like White Box Linux; iso images at
http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/download.html

Just read the Oracle installation as if it were Red Hat Advanced
Server (RHAS). I recommend the version 3 of WBL (a.k.a. RHAS 3).

And your "silly" problems may well be written about on Werner
Puschitz' pages (http://www.puschitz.com/), an excellent site
on Linux in general, and Oracle on Linux in particular

--
Regards,
Frank van Bortel

Top-posting is one way to shut me up...

On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 03:23:53 -0800, jbmorla wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I read from Oracle technology Network that Linux Red Hat Fedora 4 is
> recommended to install 10 G 2.
> So I downloaded the five ISO files from the Fedora site.
> The documentation suddenly indicates that I have to boot from the CD
> drive with a "boot.iso" file.
> Unfortunately, it doesnot tell how to make this image on a CD R
> Also I read a few postings from the fedora mailing lists and many user
> give out and declare they just won't go near Fedora any more because of
> silly problems.
> So my question is: Anyone installed 10 G 2 on a given Linux and lives
> happy ever after?

1) If you have a Windows machine with CD-writing software, it probably has
the ability to take that ISO image and put it right on a CD. For Roxio
EasyCD Creator 5, it's the "Record CD from CD image" selection under the
'File' menu.

2) Fedora is nothing more than a public beta. Having challenges with a
beta is to be expected. Besides, it upgrades every 6 months, and you are
encouraged to upgrade in that cycle - not a good thing in a production
environment. Note that Novell SuSE Linux is in the same situation.

If you want the production freebie, look at the Red Hat EL clones -
WhiteBoxLinux, TaoLinux and CentOS.

3) Yes. I am living Happily Ever After - SuSE Enterprise and Oracle 10gR2

On 7 Jan 2006 03:23:53 -0800, jbmorla@gmail.com wrote:

>So my question is: Anyone installed 10 G 2 on a given Linux and lives
>happy ever after?

The other posters have mentioned Whitebox Linux - I've used this successfully
for test machines before; since it's practically identical to RedHat Enterprise
Linux 4, it's useful for learning and initial testing before moving to an
Oracle supported distribution for production.

--
Andy Hassall :: andy@andyh.co.uk :: http://www.andyh.co.uk
http://www.andyhsoftware.co.uk/space :: disk and FTP usage analysis tool

On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 16:34:49 +0000, Andy Hassall wrote:

> On 7 Jan 2006 03:23:53 -0800, jbmorla@gmail.com wrote:
>
>>So my question is: Anyone installed 10 G 2 on a given Linux and lives
>>happy ever after?
>
> The other posters have mentioned Whitebox Linux - I've used this successfully
> for test machines before; since it's practically identical to RedHat Enterprise
> Linux 4, it's useful for learning and initial testing before moving to an
> Oracle supported distribution for production.

No quite. WB is RHEL3, CentOS is RHEL4.

Steve

On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 06:06:33 +1300, Steve <ThisOne@Aint.Valid> wrote:

>On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 16:34:49 +0000, Andy Hassall wrote:
>
>> The other posters have mentioned Whitebox Linux - I've used this successfully
>> for test machines before; since it's practically identical to RedHat Enterprise
>> Linux 4, it's useful for learning and initial testing before moving to an
>> Oracle supported distribution for production.
>
>No quite. WB is RHEL3, CentOS is RHEL4.

There's a newer version of WhiteBox - WBEL4:

http://beau.org/pipermail/whitebox-a...ay/000077.html
" * This release is starting out with i386 (ia32) and AMD64
(x86_64/ia32e) ports built from the exact same source package set, which
is RHEL4 updated with all errata released through April 30."

--
Andy Hassall :: andy@andyh.co.uk :: http://www.andyh.co.uk
http://www.andyhsoftware.co.uk/space :: disk and FTP usage analysis tool

Hi,

I have installed Oracle 10g both on Fedora 3 and Fedora 4. On Fedora 3
you might run into problem here and there and need some workarounds.

On Fedora 4 everything worked first time.

Cheers,

Jasper Scholten


jbmorla@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I read from Oracle technology Network that Linux Red Hat Fedora 4 is
> recommended to install 10 G 2.
> So I downloaded the five ISO files from the Fedora site.
> The documentation suddenly indicates that I have to boot from the CD
> drive with a "boot.iso" file.
> Unfortunately, it doesnot tell how to make this image on a CD R
> Also I read a few postings from the fedora mailing lists and many user
> give out and declare they just won't go near Fedora any more because of
> silly problems.
> So my question is: Anyone installed 10 G 2 on a given Linux and lives
> happy ever after?
>
> Have a nice day
>

Frank van Bortel wrote:
> jbmorla@gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I read from Oracle technology Network that Linux Red Hat Fedora 4 is
> > recommended to install 10 G 2.
> > So I downloaded the five ISO files from the Fedora site.
> > The documentation suddenly indicates that I have to boot from the CD
> > drive with a "boot.iso" file.
> > Unfortunately, it doesnot tell how to make this image on a CD R
> > Also I read a few postings from the fedora mailing lists and many user
> > give out and declare they just won't go near Fedora any more because of
> > silly problems.
> > So my question is: Anyone installed 10 G 2 on a given Linux and lives
> > happy ever after?
> >
> > Have a nice day
> >
>
> If you created the CD's from the iso downloads, CD 1 should
> be bootable - iso is a complete image.
>
> Apart from that, Fedora is not on the list of supported
> software - one of the things Fedora suffers from is that
> it is on the move, and there are too many releases per year.

Bingo.

> In stead, there are several no cost Red Hat Server derivate s,
> like White Box Linux; iso images at
> http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/download.html

Frank does have a good point but White Box Linux is getting somewhat
dated. Centos is now the most supported Red Hat clone.

Centos 4.2 should be the best choice for 10.2.

> Just read the Oracle installation as if it were Red Hat Advanced
> Server (RHAS). I recommend the version 3 of WBL (a.k.a. RHAS 3).

Disagree see above. Excellent install articles also available at
Jeffrey Hunter's website www.idevelopment.info .

> And your "silly" problems may well be written about on Werner
> Puschitz' pages (http://www.puschitz.com/), an excellent site
> on Linux in general, and Oracle on Linux in particular

Correct.

hpuxrac wrote:
> Frank van Bortel wrote:
>
>
> Frank does have a good point but White Box Linux is getting somewhat
> dated. Centos is now the most supported Red Hat clone.

White Box 4 was released in May last year, equivalent of RHAS 4.
>
> Centos 4.2 should be the best choice for 10.2.
>
>
>>Just read the Oracle installation as if it were Red Hat Advanced
>>Server (RHAS). I recommend the version 3 of WBL (a.k.a. RHAS 3).
>
>
> Disagree see above. Excellent install articles also available at
> Jeffrey Hunter's website www.idevelopment.info .
>

Agree to some extend - that should have been WB 4 for 10.2 - apologies.

Don't know Centos, so I cannot comment of that; never felt
the urge to try 16 different Linuxes; Oracle is enough
challenge as it is.

--
Regards,
Frank van Bortel

Top-posting is one way to shut me up...

On 2006-01-08, Andy Hassall <andy@andyh.co.uk> wrote:
> On 7 Jan 2006 03:23:53 -0800, jbmorla@gmail.com wrote:
>
>>So my question is: Anyone installed 10 G 2 on a given Linux and lives
>>happy ever after?
>
> The other posters have mentioned Whitebox Linux - I've used this successfully
> for test machines before; since it's practically identical to RedHat Enterprise
> Linux 4, it's useful for learning and initial testing before moving to an
> Oracle supported distribution for production.
>

Call me silly but...

If you are planning on using a product that may very well cost you
tends of thousands of dollars per cpu, why not just get a legitimate copy
of the OS you plan to use it on?

Otherwise, you could just use ANY distribution and massage the
distro's identity files accordingly.

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