Contents

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Preface

Purpose

Audience

Oracle8i and Oracle8i Enterprise Edition

Typographic Conventions

Command Syntax

Related Documentation

Oracle Services and Support

1 System Requirements

Installation Overview

System Installation Requirements

Hardware Requirements

Disk Space Requirements

Operating System Software Requirements

Online Documentation Requirements

Additional Product-Specific Installation Requirements

Solaris and Installation-Specific Issues and Restrictions

New ORACLE_HOME

Java Runtime Environment (JRE)

Character Mode

Upgrading and Migrating

Migrating from Oracle7

File Systems

Optimal Flexible Architecture

Solaris 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5

Very Large Files

Oracle Parallel Server Restriction

New Products

Oracle7 to Oracle8

Oracle8 to Oracle8i

2 Setting the Environment

UNIX Environment Summary

Setup Tasks to Perform as the root User

Setup Tasks to Perform as the oracle User

Setup Tasks for Oracle Products

Oracle8i Options

Tools and Precompilers

Networking and System Management Products

3 Installation

Product Installation Categories and Installation Types

Starting the OUI

Installing Products for the First Time

Installing Additional Products after Initial Installation

Installing Legato Storage Manager Manually

Updating Legato Storage Manager

Re-Installing Products

Re-Installing Oracle Parallel Server

Creating a Database

Upgrading or Migrating an Existing System

De-installing Oracle Software

Removing Legato Storage Manager Version 5.5

Cleaning Up After a Failed Installation

Installing Oracle Parallel Server

Non-Interactive Installation

Preparing the Response File

Specifying a Response File for the Oracle Universal Installer

Error Handling

Validation of Values from Response File

4 Configuring Oracle8i

Configuration Tasks to Perform as the root User

Configuration Tasks to Perform as the oracle User

Post-Installation for Oracle Products

Post-Installation for Oracle Options

Post-Installation for Oracle8i Recovery Manager

Post Installation Steps for Multi-Threaded Server (MTS)

Post Installation Steps for Oracle Parallel Server Management

Post-Installation Steps for Oracle Precompilers

Post-Installation Steps for Net8

Post-Installation for Legato Storage Manager (LSM)

Post-Installation for Oracle Names Server (Optional)

Post-Installation for Oracle Supported Protocols

Accessing Installed Documentation

Oracle Information Navigator

A National Language Support

Supported Sort Sequences

Supported Character Sets

Supported Languages and Territories

Index