Posted by Andrey Goryunov on Dec 22, 2009
When Oracle announced Oracle 11.2 for Solaris (x86-64), I decided to try a silent installation of Oracle on OpenSolaris, even though it is not certified.
I downloaded the Solaris ISO and installed it as 64-bit on one of my virtual machines with 1Gb of RAM. Installation of the OS went without a problem and I was soon enjoying a look at OpenSolaris. I eventually stopped admiring the good-looking interface (interesting—do they sell OpenSolaris-style doughnuts somewhere in Sun’s offices?), and connected through a plain old black-and-white ssh terminal to execute the silent installation.
Based on the silent installation that I had earlier executed on Linux for 11.2, I started the following: Read the rest of this entry . . .
Posted by Andrey Goryunov on Oct 14, 2009
Being a remote DBA (iDBA 2.0?) working for Pythian, I never see the servers that run the databases I connect to.
But do I have to? Term “remote” is very widespread today. We use remote controls for lots of devices, manage our bank accounts remotely, communicate to our parents and over phones, and so on. So why should we meet servers personally? Everything can be done remotely and that’s why silent installation of Oracle software is very important for database administrators.
Oracle continues to develop and improve that process, and nowadays for smooth and quick installation is just a matter of the proper definition of parameters.
I had had some experience with silent (and not always successful) installation of Oracle versions 8 and 9, but thanks to an excellent post, Oracle Silent Mode, Part 1: Installation Of 10.2 And 11.1 Databases by Grégory Guillou, I got a new splash of joy using silent installations. RDBMS, Oracle Grid Control, agents, scheduler agents, collaboration software, etc., can be installed using the silent installation in latest versions. This post is about silent installation of one of the new Oracle 11g Rel.2 options called Oracle Restart.
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