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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s all a bit last minute, but today I decided to do an Oracle 11gR2 (11.2.0.3) RAC installation on Oracle Linux 6.1 using VirtualBox. The 11.2.0.3 patch has fixed all of the installation issues related to RAC on OL6.1, so it was pretty smooth. The procedure can be seen here. Oracle Database 11g Release 2 [...]
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 [...]
I was just mailed a bug update and it included this text (spelling mistakes theirs, not mine). Note customer is on Linux but could not find an available 11.2 Linux database to test on. Reprocided problem on Solaris confirming that there is some generic problem here. Really? And here’s me thinking that firing up a [...]