On 5/15/05, Paula_Stankus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <Paula_Stankus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> w= rote: > So I ended up saying the heck with it as I don't want to go much farther > without hooking up with the system admin. >=20 > I instead did a scp from the disk to the target host which brings up > another question. >=20 > Doing a scp -pr everything is owned by root - any known "gotchas" about > copying the files with "-pr" then running the install from a staging > area? >=20 I don't know about root. But, I would not scp contents from a CDROM as root, rather I would download the zip files from either otn or edelivery.oracle.com and expand as oracle user, if possible. I don't know if the Solaris versions you need are available to d/l, but it seems safer. Good luck. Regards, Mike Thomas -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l