The following is a step by step guide on how to configure
Oracle
to run on a
Sun
Sparc IPX.
The distribution of Oracle for Sun Sparc Solaris is by default configured
to run on sun4m class machines (as identified by uname -p).
This is probably not an entirely unreasonable assumption for Oracle to make,
as who would expect to have someone running Oracle on something as old as
a Sparc IPX?
Well, we did and I'm sure we're not alone. Although it is slow to say the
least, it does work ...
On a Sparc IPX or sun4c class machine, when trying to create a database the
following error occurs
ORA-27123: unable to attach to shared memory segment.
In order to overcome this error the SGA needs to be relocated by performing
the following steps
