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Oracle 10g R2 on Windows 2008 Server

200754Jan 5 2010 — edited May 18 2011
Hi all,

Can I install Oracle 10g Release 2 on Windows Server 2008 64-bit? If not, is there any workaround solution? Our brand new server was shipped with Windows Server 2008 CD and we cannot install Windows 2003 on that machine.


Thanks in advance.

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Moin!

I did also download the most recent (DVD) ISO did a setup_install_server
and didn't have that problem. I did however skip the burn step and instead
mounted the ISO directly via loopback devices:

# lofiadm -a /jumpstart/OS/isos/sol-10-u2-ga-sparc-dvd.iso
/dev/lofi/7
# mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/7 /mnt/10u2

When looking at the files system of this mount the Boot directory is not
linked and as said the setup_install_server worked fine.

Hope this helps
-Ralf
user4994457
Correct. The CD is a bit low on space, so the boot files are only present in a SPARC UFS filesystem (necessary so the CD is bootable). The x86 box won't read that filesystem (either from CD or from an image).

You'd need to either build at least one SPARC machine, mount the CD there, then copy the files over to the x86 box.

Or as mentioned, use the DVD image. The space there allows the boot code to be duplicated in two places so the x86 box can read it.

--
Darren
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