Operating System and Hardware
Requirements
The table shown below is a
summary of the requirements shown in Oracle's installation guide. Oracle's
installation guide contains several errors, and the differences are noted
below.
Item
|
Value/Requirement
|
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IP address
|
Must be static, do not use
DHCP
|
|
Processor type/CPU
|
A SPARC v9 processor. The
output from /usr/bin/psrinfo
-v will reflect sparcv9 if this requirement is met.
|
|
Processor speed
|
Oracle states a 300MHz
requirement, but the installer only checks for >250MHz. /usr/bin/psrinfo -v will also show the processor speed.
|
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Memory/RAM
|
512MB, can be checked via /usr/sbin/prtconf | grep Memory
|
|
Disk Space
|
1GB on a single partition,
but just under 800MB is used after installation is complete. Checked by using
df -k.
|
|
Space in /tmp
|
Oracle states 256MB, but the
installer only checks for >150MB. You can also set and use a TMP
environment variable if /tmp does not have enough space (can be checked using
df -k /tmp).
|
|
Swap space
|
Oracle states 640MB, but
the installer may check for a higher value (such as >1536MB on a 768MB RAM
machine), can be checked using
/usr/sbin/swap -s. If you need to add more space, create a swapfile
and add it to the system using the mkfile and swap
-a commands.
|
|
Monitor
|
256 color viewing
capability, which can be checked using /usr/openwin/bin/xwininfo (look for an "8" in the "Depth" line)
|
|
Operating system
|
Solaris 8 or 9, checked
via uname -r (look for 5.8 or 5.9)
Download and install the
latest Sun OS and J2SE patch clusters (e.g., 9_Recommended.zip and J2SE
Solaris 9) at
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/patch-access
|
|
Operating system patches
|
Solaris 8 has an extensive
list of patches, whereas Oracle states no patches are required for Solaris 9.
However, the installer checks for two patches on Solaris 9 (113096-03 and
112705-26, or higher). Installing the latest recommended OS patch cluster
will ensure the patch level requirement is met (see page 5-3 in the
installation guide for Solaris 8 patches). Installed patches can be
viewed/checked using the showrev
-a command (you can grep
for a patch or pipe the output to a file for viewing with a text editor).
|
|
Operating system packages
|
The following packages
must be installed (these typically are installed with most OS installations),
and can be checked using pkginfo
name.
SUNWarc SUNWbtool SUNWhea SUNWlibm
SUNWlibms SUNWsprot SUNWsprox SUNWtoo
SUNWi1of SUNWxwfnt SUNWi1cs* SUNWi15cs*
See the script and the end
of this guide you can use to check for package info. (*=required for the
ISO8859-1 & ISO8859-15 codesets)
|
NOTE: If using Solaris 8, the version of Java (java -version at a UNIX prompt shows the current version) found in the /usr directory needs to be upgraded to at least 1.3.1 (Solaris 8 installs with version 1.2).
Instructions for this are covered here . Sun recommends you install 1.4.2, but 1.3.1 is still available. Solaris 9 ships with 1.4.0, and no upgrade is needed.
General Information
Required software
If the software is not
shipped to you, you can download the software at http://otn.oracle.com/software/products/forms/index.html.
Select "Oracle Application Server Forms
and Reports Services 10g (9.0.4.0.0) for Solaris Operating System
(SPARC)." Follow the instructions to
extract the downloaded file.
Environment variables
The sample C-shell resource (.cshrc)
file at the end of this guide shows a list of environment variables that need
to be set prior to starting the installation.
FORMS90_PATH
Your forms can be distributed anywhere on the UNIX or
network file system, and in more than one location. The only permissions
requirement is that the fmx files are accessible by the forms services.
Note about setting the DISPLAY environment
variable
The DISPLAY environment variable must be set to the
server where 10gAS is being installed. If you use the sample C-shell resource
file at the end of this guide, enter the host name as appropriate when editing
the file. As the user ias, verify that you can see GUI displays by running /usr/dt/openwin/xclock. If you see a clock appear on the screen, enter
Control-C to kill the process. If you receive an error message, exit the shell
and return to a shell window as the UNIX account owner who initially logged on
to the machine. Enter xhost + at the command line, then become ias again and
attempt to run xclock. Once you are able to see the clock, you are ready to
insert the CD-ROM and start the installation.
Setting ports
If the target machine for
this installation is a typical machine (current OS, latest patches applied, no
other third party web server applications running on it), then there is nothing
you have to do with respect to the /etc/services file in terms of assigning
port numbers. Oracle will reserve and assign the ports it needs. Otherwise,
refer to chapter 3 of the installation guide for information about configuring
ports.
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