[JLL]

If anyone is interested.

http://otn.oracle.com/software/produ...s/macsoft.html

[geekwagon]

I'm definitely interested. I think I'll download this today and see if I can get it to install on client. 9i would with some massaging so hopefully this will be similar.

[Dennis the Phantom Menace]

Has anybody tried it out yet? If so, please post any comments, caveats, etc.
Thanks!

[geekwagon]

I'm having a hard time getting it installed. I get a link error:

Code:
ld: /usr/lib/crt1.o relocation overflow for relocation entry 31 in section (__TEXT,__text) (displacement too large)
ld: /usr/lib/gcc/darwin/3.3/crt2.o relocation overflow for relocation entry 0 in section (__TEXT,__text) (displacement too large)
--etc---

There were 2-3 other link errors as well. Looks like it kind-of half installed anyway, but none of the web-interfaces like EM work.

I see someone in the OTN forums having the same problem. This is on client, I haven't tried it on server yet as I was hoping to use it on my Powerbook for development when I am traveling.

Not a lot of time to troubleshoot this today, hopefully someone with more time and experience will get it working and post a recipe

[geekwagon]

FYI, I got this working tonight. A couple of factors changed, so not sure which did it:

- Oracle posted a new CD (this one is release two, and was .gzipped)
- The new CD had the install guide in it (whatta concept) so I was able to actually set kernel parameters, etc. as they wanted.
- The machine I installed it on has XCode 1.2, I think the previous one I was using was only 1.1.

The install went pretty smooth actually, smoother than any of the Linux or AIX installs I have done recently. The Enterprise Manager actually works (I have had problems with that on other platforms.) On the downside, looks like all the cluster stuff is screwed up (ocssd.bin wont run, and the last root.sh that sets up some things doesn't work quite right.)

[Arkham_c]

So, I'm no DBA, but I did get it installed. I got a few errors about determining the hostname, but the installation completed with no errors otherwise. The question is, how do I configure and start it? There doesn't appear to be a tnsnames.ora file with the database I created during the install process. No oracle processes appear to be running when the installation is done.

[geekwagon]

Make sure your ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID env variables are set, then run sqlplus. For the login, use "sys as sysdba" (no quotes), use the password you gave sys during the install. At that point, it should say "Connected to an idle instance." and give you a SQL> prompt. just type startup and the instance that coresponds to your ORACLE_SID setting should start.

If you get a TNS error or something, then the install might not have happened quite right. Oracle is one of those products that you can't just take the defaults in their installer and expect it to work, you have to go through their install guide and do a bunch of other crap like making groups/users and such. (Although 10g is a lot better about this than previous versions.)

Did you get a second java app popping up near the end that took a bunch of time creating the instance? I had a problem where that never opened once and it left me with the binaries but no instances (oradata didn't even get created.)

I ask that because at the end of the install the instance should be running, as well as all their java app server stuff like Enterprise Manager, iSQLPlus, etc.

[Arkham_c]

Originally posted by geekwagon:
Make sure your ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID env variables are set, then run sqlplus. For the login, use "sys as sysdba" (no quotes), use the password you gave sys during the install. At that point, it should say "Connected to an idle instance." and give you a SQL> prompt. just type startup and the instance that coresponds to your ORACLE_SID setting should start.

Did you get a second java app popping up near the end that took a bunch of time creating the instance? I had a problem where that never opened once and it left me with the binaries but no instances (oradata didn't even get created.)

I ask that because at the end of the install the instance should be running, as well as all their java app server stuff like Enterprise Manager, iSQLPlus, etc.

The java app servers did start. However, oradata does not appear to exist. I guess that would explain it. When I try to log in as above, I get "Insufficient privileges".

Should I delete my /Library/oracle and reinstall from the .cpio file? What should I do differently this time? I didn't get a user guide. Maybe I need to re-download the ".gz" version someone mentioned in an earlier post. My real goal is to get it going so I can play with Oracle Pro C, which I need to maintain some legacy code at work.

[JLL]

Originally posted by Arkham_c:
I didn't get a user guide. Maybe I need to re-download the ".gz" version someone mentioned in an earlier post. My real goal is to get it going so I can play with Oracle Pro C, which I need to maintain some legacy code at work.

You definitely need to download the .gz version - something was wrong with the first one, and the new one also includes documentation.

[Dennis the Phantom Menace]

So this release is called the "Early Adopters Release". Is this just the Oracle way of saying it's a beta version?

[JLL]

Originally posted by Dennis the Phantom Menace:
So this release is called the "Early Adopters Release". Is this just the Oracle way of saying it's a beta version?

Yep - you could call it a public beta.

Notice that it is a newer version of 10g (10.1.0.3 instead of 10.1.0.2).

I think that they released it now so people can play with it before the Oracle session at WWDC, and the final should be released within the next two weeks.

[Arkham_c]

Originally posted by JLL:
You definitely need to download the .gz version - something was wrong with the first one, and the new one also includes documentation.

Yeah, with the .gz version and its included documentation I was able to get it running. Now I just need to figure out how to USE it