Monthly Archives: June 2011

When patching is not enough: Oracle 11g R2 on Solaris SPARC requires fresh base installation of Solaris 10 U6

While checking MOS i found an interesting note (ID 964976.1) which states: Applying a kernel patch or a Solaris patch bundle is not the equivalent to installing the specific Solaris 10 “update 6” image. 11gR2 RDBMS software is only certified … Continue reading

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Installing a paravirtualized guest using PXE and Kickstart on Oracle VM 2.2

The past few days i started working on Oracle VM 2.2.1. The task i tried to accomplish was to install Oracle Enterprise Linux in a para-virtualized guest via PXE and Kickstart. Sounds not too complicated, does it? If you are … Continue reading

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