Can't run Oracle 817 Installer

[Guest_imported]

After installing the Blackdown 1.1.8 v3 JRE in /usr/local/jre, the Oracle Installer complain that JRE can't not be found.

does any body have any tips of how to fix this problem

IT's URGENT

thanks

 

[ForumKid]

Do you get to the step where is asks where your java is?

At what point does this happen?
Does the installer ever start?
What OS are you trying to load oracle on? what version?

Thanks

 

[Guest_imported]

it never asked for java,

it happened when I mount the cd and really to run ./runInstaller


Installer never started.

It's Linux Redhat 6.2

Please help

 

[ForumKid]

U have to do this.

Mount the cdrom in your server

from an x windows workstation on your network. You must have a workstation running linux GUI (KDE, GNOME) etc.

Example
Server ip: 192.168.1.1
Workstation ip: 10.0.0.1

From workstation type:
xhost +192.168.1.1 --> This allows x communication
then
ssh or telnet to 192.168.1.1

sign on as oracle
then type
export DISPLAY=10.0.0.1:0.0
then type
/mnt/cdrom/runInstaller

Let me know if this helps. I have done this a billion times and I can definitely help you

 

[Guest_imported]

Ok, the cd is mounted properly and all of the x settings are correct (I'm sitting at the console). There are two problems:

1) Running /mnt/cdrom/runInstaller gives the error:
"bash: ./runInstaller: no such file or folder"
which is odd since the script is usr/group/world readable and executable. But, since it is a script, all of the commands can be run by hand if needed (Which I did).

2) The program /mnt/cdrom/install/linux/runInstaller says that the Java runtime environment at /bin/jre could not be found. I have downloaded and extracted/installed the blackdown JRE 1.1.8 v3 into /usr/local/jre_118v3 with a link to /usr/local/jre. Everything is owned by root.root and is chmod 655 so permissions should not be a problem. I have tried setting my path to include /usr/local/jre/bin, I have tried unsetting that path, I have linked to /usr/local/java and then setting my path both ways and nothing works.

Once I can get the installer started, I should be fine... I just can't get the stupid thing to run!

Thanks for your help!

 

[ForumKid]

You should not be running the mnt/cdrom/install/linux/runInstaller.
You should be running the runInstaller script from the root of the cdrom. Thats your problem.
i.e.
mount the cdrom
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

run the installer
1) /mnt/cdrom/runInstaller
OR
cd /mnt/cdrom
2) ./runInstaller
Oracle 9i is on 2cds so you have to use #1. But for 817 you should be ok, i think its only 1 cd.

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

I haven't done 8.1.7. but for 8.1.6 I don't recollect anything about java at the install stage. Thats probably just because you haven't set the CLASSPATH environment variable.

The way I did is as follows :

su to root ....

# groupadd sysdba
# groupadd sysoper
# groupadd oinstall
# useradd oracle -d /usr/oracle -g oinstall -G sysdba,sysoper
# passwd oracle (set password ....)
# chmod 755 /usr/oracle
# cd /usr
# mkdir oraInventory
# chown oracle.oinstall oraInventory

then edit the 'oracle' user's profile (/usr/oracle/.bash_profile) and set the environment variables :

DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
ORACLE_BASE=/usr/oraInventory
ORACLE_HOME=/usr/oracle
ORACLE_SID=oralin
export DISPLAY ORACLE_BASE ORACLE_HOME ORACLE_SID
PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
export PATH

After all that login as the 'oracle' user and mount the CD (su to root if necessary) and run the graphical installer :

$ mount /dev/cdrom -t iso9660 /mnt/cdrom
$ cd /mnt/cdrom
$ ./runInstaller

When it asks for UNIX Group Name give 'oinstall' and it promnpts you to run a script as root. You just have to go to a xterm window and su to root and run that before resuming (this may be different in 8.1.7 ?).

After that it should be fairly easy unless its been changed a lot since 8.1.6 .

Hope this helps