When Fedora 15 rocked up it brought with it a replacement for the old init-style startup called systemd. In Fedora 15, it was pretty easy to ignore this change as everything (including vncserver) ran pretty much the same as before. Fedora 16 is a little more “aggressive” about it’s use of systemd. When you issue [...]
Fedora 16 came out yesterday and since it’s my main server OS it’s been upgrade crazy round here. All new installs and upgrades were straight forward. No real dramas at all (touch wood). As usual, I’ve done the OS installation and Oracle installation articles. Fedora 16 (F16) Installation Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) Installation [...]
I mentioned the day before Open World I put a Virtual RAC on Oracle Linux 6.1 article live. Although the procedure was complete, some of the screen shots were from an old article as I didn’t have time to redo them before my flight. I’ve just run through the procedure again and taken new screen [...]
There seems to be a little confusion out there about the certification status of Oracle Database 11gR2, especially with the release of the 11.2.0.3 patchset which fixes all the issues associated with RAC installs on OL/RHEL 6.1. Currently, 11gR2 is *NOT* certified on OL6 or RHEL6. How do I know? My Oracle Support says so! [...]
Over the weekend Oracle Linux 5.7 was released, as noted here. Upgrades follow the normal path. Do one of the following: Boot from the DVD and upgrade that way. Replace the “/etc/yum.repos.d/public-yum-el5.repo” file with the new version here, remembering to enable the appropriate entries. Amend your existing “/etc/yum.repos.d/public-yum-el5.repo”, adding the following new entry. [ol5_u7_base] name=Oracle [...]
Jay Weinshenker has written a couple of good posts in response to my recent post on Oracle Linux vs. RHEL. What Linux distribution should you use for Oracle virtualized on VMware Oracle versus RedHat and VMware I don’t agree 100% with his all his points, but I always think it’s good to hear different sides of [...]
There was an interesting thread on the OakTable mailing list the other day regarding the choice of Linux distros for Oracle installations. It was started by one member (the name has been withheld to protect the innocent ) who said, “I cannot imagine (but want to understand) why anyone would pick RHEL5.6 for Oracle as opposed to the [...]