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Has the installation time required for Oracle 10g lesser than that was required for prveious versions. Previous version required some hours to install.
 
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I guess it depends on which platform we install. I have installed Oracle9i on SP machine, and it just need 30 mins. But when I installed it on RedHat Advanced server, it needs around 2 hours.

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Previous version required some hours to install
Assume we install the same version and same number of database. I think that the installation time depends on the performance of computer hardware. As I have installed Oracle 9i (92021) database enterprise version in home that had spent about 25-30 minutes. If it was installed in my high school, it spent about 40-45 minutes. And we can choose to install the database only, that does not contain sample data, then the installation time must be faster.
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However, I guess 10g may need less time to install, due to the capacity is just 2 CDs. But I am not sure whether it is the full version. Let me confirm with Oracle.

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Originally posted by siu chung man:
Previous version required some hours to install
Assume we install the same version and same number of database. I think that the installation time depends on the performance of computer hardware. As I have installed Oracle 9i (92021) database enterprise version in home that had spent about 25-30 minutes. If it was installed in my high school, it spent about 40-45 minutes. And we can choose to install the database only, that does not contain sample data, then the installation time must be faster.

[ November 03, 2004: Message edited by: siu chung man ]



Let me be clear. I am talking about installation of app server not database.
 
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Seems Oracle10g AS tries to reduce the size of the binary codes. I guess the performance will be better than the previous versions.

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Hi. Total time to install obviously depends on CPU, disk speed, memory, if the software is already staged to disk, etc. But where most of the time is really spent is setting up the machine to perform the install (users, patches, etc), patches after the install (ex. 9.0.4.1 and security patch 68), and configuration (Apache, SSL, backup/recovery, etc).

If you've worked with 9iAS V2 and are going to 10gAS, I think you'll find the installation to be relatively easy. It may be a little faster, but the important thing is you'll have fewer bugs and problems to deal with. 10gAS has some strict installation requirements, but if you follow the install guide and meet those requirements you shouldn't have too many problems.

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Originally posted by Mike Wessler:
10gAS has some strict installation requirements, but if you follow the install guide and meet those requirements you shouldn't have too many problems.

But isn't that exactly what constitutes an installation problem? Obviously Oracle doesn't release software even they themselves can't install. The "installation problems" I get with most software are usually about not having some property somewhere set quite right... The key, for me, to getting full marks from me on ease of installation is to provide helpful error messages instead of just "Installation failed -- Please try again with your fingers crossed."...
 
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If you're a developer and aren't actively using a lot of non-J2EE features, just download and install OC4J -- OAS's core J2EE container. It's a ~30MB zip file that installs in under a minute (unzip it and run one install command to set the password).

You don't need any tools to configure it (just edit config files), and it starts/deploys very quickly. JBoss users should feel right at home.

(Just be sure to validate your deployment descriptors. If they are badly formed, OC4J will sometimes just fall back to a default version without telling you, and you'll wonder why it's ignoring all your settings.)
 
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As Lasse said, sometimes, when I installed OAS, it just tell me that there are errors encountered, without telling me what's really happening. I need to spend lots of time to find out the reasons.

I do wish the future version of Oracle installer might provide us more detail info, instead of those preliminary messages, and the *difficult-to-understand* log files.

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