Re: Downloading media for RAC vm test environment
- From: Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Malcolm Lawrence <lawrence.malcolm@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:38:28 -0300
I just finished installing CentOS today... perhaps during this week I'll
work on installing the CRS... I feel a blog post comming... this promises to
be a fun experience :-D
Alan.-
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Malcolm Lawrence <
lawrence.malcolm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I had similar issues, kept trying to download and it kept erroring out.
> Seems like it would do better during U.S. working hours - 8:00 a.m. - 5:00
> pm CST. At night or on weekends I had lots of the same "Server Error"
> issues.
>
> Malcolm Lawrence
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
>
>> So... there I was, happily minding my business when my boss decided it was
>> time I got something interesting. We are upgrading all the DBs to 11.2.0.2,
>> so he gave me the task of setting up the DEV cluster (of course, we migrate
>> DEV first, then QA and finally Prod... which is sensible).
>>
>> Problem: I've never installed an 11.2 RAC! I did install an 11.1 back when
>> 11.1.0.6 was released, but I never even applied 11.1.0.7 to it.
>>
>> So, I say to myself (what a wonderful world!) "I know! I'll crate a VM (on
>> my vmware server) and install an 11.2 RAC there... that's smart! that way
>> I'll go into the dev installation knowing what I need"
>>
>> on I go to attempt to download first the Oracle Enterprise Linux. Of
>> course, it's not on edelivery... it on edelivery.oracle.com/linux... and
>> I had to get there (the first time) from OTN.
>>
>> Then I start downloading it (using firefox) and dTA fails with "server
>> error" normal download results in a 0kb file... so I fire up chrome (still
>> better than IE) and get the same... I star IE and get the same... so now I'm
>> wondering... does this happen with every media pack? I'm downloading the
>> RDBMS software from Metalink, since it's an out of place patch and I need to
>> install 11.2.0.2 still... I don't have a linux to install on...
>>
>> I might end up downloading CentOS... well played oracle... well played...
>> Alan.-
>>
>
>
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