Hi,

I am trying to install Oracle ERP 11i (11.5.8) using MAXTOR FIREWIRE 200GB disk. Software Redhat 9.0. Hardware Compaq 3000, dual processor; 490MHz; 500 MB RAM.

Everything looked like working fine (after setting LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1, system was hanging before). But, there are 2 potential show-stoppers / problems.

1) to install oracle 11i software , there are nearly 18 CDs. System HANGS soon after the 2nd CD completes. It should prompt me for 3 rd CD. It just hangs.

2) so I have to reboot system and do everyhting all over. like cleaning the mess that previous installation created.
Sometimes, in this process , while mounting FIREWIRE disk, system hangs. the command that i give, after loading modules thru modprobe, is
mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt/fire

Can somebody help me to understand whole thing? has anybody successful installed or used FIREWIRE disk for any major software? I am just using FIREWIRE disk as storage.

Are there any enviroment variables that should be set in order to work with firewire?

Thanks for your replies in advance.

--GKM

I am contemplating purchasing a FireWire card shortly. If you get this figured out, let me know. Im about to post a question.

bunyan

I did install 11i. But I used Maxtor firewire 200GB as a staging area , not for any other purpose.
I assemled intel pentiem 4 processor on ABIT IS7 motherboard. With that machine as server I used Maxtor as staging area for 11i.
If you need any further assistance on this as I do not watch this fourm quite often, email me at vrexcited@yahoo.com.