Markus:
I agree that the problem is the way that Oracle reads the output from the
"df" command and not devfs, per se. In fact, the Java-based Oracle
Installer is one of the worst kludges that I have seen in a long time.
Thanks,
Sean
Markus
Kienemund To: mclinden@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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04/25/2001
04:18 AM
Sean,
I learned the same story from other sources. Its related to dbassist before
creating a default database, it
checks the available disk-space. Because pathnames /dev/scsci/lun.... using
devfs are much longer than before, df uses
2 lines to display the size of a filesystem, and dbassist cannot cope with
this.
I personally think this is a problem that goes to Oracle, not devfs. I put
a workaround into the SGI knowledgebase
(search for "Oracle 8.1.6 installation hangs"), which is a "mv" of the
long device path to a shorter one. Then dbassists survives
and creates the database.
Regards,
Markus Kienemund
SGI Germany
mclinden@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> This is slightly off-topic but may be important to some users.
>
> I have confirmed that devfs enabled Linux systems may exhibit problems
> related to the installation of Oracle 8i for Linux. Apparently the
problem
> is related to the Oracle Installer's inability to properly parse the
output
> of the df(1) command in order to calculate available disk space (I don't
> have the source code for the Installer). The identical install with devfs
> disabled has no problems.
>
> There does NOT appear to be a problem enabling devfs after installing
> Oracle, however.
>
> Sean McLinden
> Outcome Technology Associates, Inc.(See attached file: markus.vcf)
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