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Below are the installation note’s I captured in installing Oracle10.2.0.1 on a Fedora 8 workstation. For some reason installations ofOracle on Fedora linux in past never went as smooth as hoped.. I washowever relatively happy with how things turned out on F8 and its niceto see some of the old problems, like hanging during installation, [...]

Create a script that you’ll be able to setup as a cron entry to run daily. For a FC7 mirror I used the following: #!/bin/bash ARCH=i386 # Set to the architecture of your systems # Mirror found at: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/7/ # Be sure to include trailing slash. RELEASES_DIR=/clientdata/yum/fedora/releases/7/Fedora/$ARCH/ RELEASES_URL=rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/7/Fedora/$ARCH/ CORE_DIR=/clientdata/yum/fedora/releases/7/Live/$ARCH/os/ CORE_URL=rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/7/Live/i386/os/ UPDATES_URL=rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/updates/7/$ARCH/ UPDATES_DIR=/clientdata/yum/fedora/updates/7/$ARCH/ mkdir -p $RELEASES_DIR [...]