installing Oracle 9i on Solaris 9 Oracle 9i has 3 CD's. First one installed ok, then asked for second, but could not eject 1st CD from drive. Message returned that drive was busy. Closed everything that could be using CD, still get same message. So unable to continue installation. Stuck.

Erik - This will be a problem for everyone. Here's how to work around it: Create on a hard drive file partition three sub-partitions / directories. Create them using the mkdir command. Be sure you have about 2000MB of hard drive space available. Call them orcl901_1, orcl901_2, and orcl901_3. Use the UNIX copy command, cp, to copy the contents of each CD to the hard drive directory of the same name, ie., CD named orcl901_1 is copied to directory orcl901_1; do likewise for CD#2 and CD#3. After this step, all CD code is now on hard drive. Remove CD #3 from the drive tray. In a CDE Home Directory window, open the orcl901_1 folder and doubleclick on the runInstaller icon to start installation. (This same command can be CLI initiated as well from a console window using "./dir_x/dir_y/runInstaller".) When the dialog box that stopped you before comes up and states to "insert orcl901_2", press the BROWSE button and open the resulting file tree. Find and highlight the orcl901_2 folder, click OK, click OK again at the dialog box, and it will begin its installation. Repeat for orcl901_3. This technique can be used for many multi-CD applications. When you see the dialog box, what I wrote will become clearer. Here's a heads-up: Oracle installation is a beast. Lack of a complete pre-installation setup will prevent you from starting Oracle. I have working instructions how to prepare for Oracle installation. Send me your e-mail address and I will send them to you. Contact me at: michaeljerger@hotmail.com. More heads-up: During installation, more dialog boxes will warn you that so-and-so directory has not been created. You can quit, retry, or ignore. When these warnings appear, go to the CDE bar, open another console window and right then and there, switch user to root and make the directory the warning box is complaining about. (Permission will default to 755.) Exit back to user level, and exit again to close the window. Then press the dialog box's retry button. This will occur 4 or 5 times, I don't recall exactly how many right now. My only load attempt had mistakes in it. Error messages 01034 and 27101 came back as a result (probably) of not creating the required directories as the installation process complains, but I'm not sure. These error messages will prevent you from starting Oracle. If you do get your Oracle application up and running, please post so and any detailed additional instructions not posted here. You will be helping many people (like me) trying to overcome the same obstacles. - Mike

Addendum #1: For the mkdir commands, use: mkdir -p /dir_x/dir_y/orcl901_1 mkdir -p /dir_x/dir_y/orcl901_2 mkdir -p /dir_x/dir_y/orcl901_3 where dir_x and dir_y are directory names of your choice. For the cp commands, use: cp -r /cdrom/orcl901_1/* /dir_x/dir_y/orcl901_1 cp -r /cdrom/orcl901_2/* /dir_x/dir_y/orcl901_2 cp -r /cdrom/orcl901_3/* /dir_x/dir_y/orcl901_3 The lines should not wrap as shown here. To launch from a command line: ./dir_x/dir_y/orcl901_1/runInstaller (You probably know that UNIX is case-sensitive. I included it here as a reminder for others users.) - Mike