[TriLUG] Re: Need advise.

[Marty Ferguson]

Andy,

Don't bother installing X... Just make sure that
you have SSH installed.  As of RH 7 .0, the SSH
rpm takes care of everything.  If you bring  up
an  Xterm on  your workstation, just SSH over to
your Oracle server.  THe Xauth MIT-Magic Cookie
gets set for you, the $DISPLAY variable is set
to point back to your workstation, and, best of
all, your entire X session is encrypted over the wire!

SSH...definitely the way to go.

Regards,
Marty


On Thursday 25 October 2001 12:01, you wrote:

Its been a little while since I installed oracle.  First thing make sure
that the version of your distro is supported.  When I first tried, I used RH
70 and it just didn't work.  After some searching I found that it just
didn't work yet.

Don't forget to install X.  Unfortunately, the Oracle Installer REQUIRES X
to run.  (normally I wouldn't even consider installing X on a database
server, but thats just me).  

If you're not too familiar make sure you pick up the Database Administrators
Guide.  In short:

1.Rollback segments and Temp segments should be on seperate disks if
possible
(The idea being that a insert statement that also does a joined/sorted query
shouldn't fight itself.)
2.Indexes and their data should be on seperate disks if possible 
3.Redo logs should be on a different disk than the rollback segments and
temp segments if possible.

-Andy