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From: depner@Thalatta.COM (August Depner)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Oracle Application Foundation on Suns
Keywords: Oracle, Version-6, Sun, NFS, Application Foundation
Message-ID: <5559@thebes.Thalatta.COM>
Date: 29 Aug 90 01:38:27 GMT
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Organization: Thalatta Corporation, Bellevue WA
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We're trying to bring up Oracle Application Foundation on a Sun 3/50,
without success so far.

Configuration:

Sun 3/50, 4Mb, SunOS 4.0.3 (no patches), Diskless

The Oracle executables and db files live on a diskful Sun 3/50 running
Sun OS 3.5 and are mounted via a NFS partition.

The barebones DBMS runs fine, but when we try to install Application Foundation,
the install script bombs after a while with an ORACLE error of 01547 - failed to
allocate extent of size 'xxx' in tablespace 'SYSTEM'.  We've pared down what we're installing and
increased the size of tablespace 'SYSTEM'  several times with no luck. At present, we are allocating
over 100 Mb of diskspace to ORACLE, and cannot complete the install.

ORACLE has not been of any help - does someone out there have experience with this kind of problem?
We're getting very frustrated with what should be a simple install - ORACLE just tells us to increase
the size of tablespace 'SYSTEM' - but we've done just that, making SYSTEM one contiguous file - and
we're still getting the same error code of 1547. Trying to get ORACLE to help hunt down this problem has
proved difficult, since they seem to be either stumped or too disinterested in our installation to help
solve this problem. 

Gee, and we *were* thinking of buying this stuff... :-(
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