Charles, You might want to copy what Oracle Education does. They keep the files for a small instance, and copy them into each student directory before the class starts. Dennis On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Charles Schultz <sacrophyte@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Good day, list, > > I will be helping at a local community college, and would like to start > thinking about setting up an environment where students can play and do > homework. I believe we will be targeting a max of 15 students, and plan to > cover basic things like software installation & patching, database creation, > using EM (both Grid Control and Database Control), and all areas of > management. Probably not RAC, as it would be a bit too much for an intro > class series. > > Anyone have experience setting up this kind of environment? I will > obviously want different Oracle Homes for each student, and right now we > only one host (dual cpu quad core) with 10gb of memory; would also like to > squeeze EM on there as well, and I would most likely want to specify ports > using the command-line options for runInstaller. Right now the host is > running Slackware, which has not been too bad for us (have to do some hacks > to get runInstaller going). As of now, the class is targetting Oracle 10gR2, > but I am thinking 11g might be an interesting venture. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. TIA > > -- > Charles Schultz > Sent from: Champaign Illinois United States.