I need to download a copy of CentOS 2.1 (x86), but I can’t find it anywhere. I’ve been down the list of mirrors and they all list 2.1, but then have an empty tree below it. If anyone knows how I can get hold of it please drop me a line. Cheers Tim…
Until a couple of days ago I hadn’t even realized that Fedora 13 was out. I guess that shows how interested I am in Fedora these days. Anyway, I had a play around with it. Fedora 13 (F13) Installation Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) Installation On Fedora 13 (F13) Cheers Tim…
With the recent news that the latest version of VirtualBox now supports shared disks, I thought I better give it a go and see if I could do a RAC installation on it. The good news is it worked as expected. You can see a quick run through here: Oracle Database 11g Release 2 RAC [...]
I know it’s been said before, but I read this and thought, once Red Hat’s market value starts to drop Oracle could get a really good deal. I thought the reference to the quality of Red Hat’s support was quite comical. I’ve always found their support to be terrible. To be more specific, you raise [...]
I’ve been having a play with the DBFS functionality in 11gR2. Oracle Database File System (DBFS) in Oracle Database 11g Release 2 For the most part it is extremely simple. If you are working on Linux then it’s a really neat solution. On any other platform you are limited to using the dbfs_client tool, which [...]
I’ve been using Kickstart and network installations for a while now. I think the last time I wrote about it was in RHEL3 days (here). Well I finally got round to having a look at PXE Network Installations, which just tags an extra bit onto the start to save you running round with boot CDs. [...]
I finally got round to trying an NFS installation of 11gR2 RAC. Oracle Database 11g Release 2 RAC On Linux Using NFS No real surprises here. It all seems a little simpler when using NFS, but it was cronically slow on my crappy kit. Cheers Tim…
A couple of new articles have crept out recently. The first is me pretending to understand DNS. DNS Configuration for the SCAN used with Oracle RAC Database 11g Release 2 I used this configuration in place of the “/etc/hosts” in my VMware RAC installation and it worked great. The second is a brief romp through [...]
Since I upgraded my desktop to CentOS 5.4 I’ve been getting loads of problems with VMware Server 2.x. I did a bit of Googling today and it turns out it’s a known problem. I followed the workaround listed at the following URL and it works fine now. https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=23365&start=0#forumpost91494 If you are struggling with VMware Server [...]
Having seen the fuss over Google Chrome for Linux I decided to jump on the bandwagon and download it. When I tried to install it I was met with this message: # rpm -i google-chrome-beta_current_x86_64.rpm warning: google-chrome-beta_current_x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 7fac5991 error: Failed dependencies: lsb >= 3.2 is needed by google-chrome-beta-4.0.249.30-33928.x86_64 [...]
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Posted 09 December 2009
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