[Oracleasm-users] Installing ASMLIB on RHEL3.0

[Joel Becker]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 06:11:44PM +0300, Irshad Buchh wrote:
> I am having a box running RHEL 3.0 (got from centos.org). I have Oracle 10g
> running ok. Now I tried to install ASMLIB downloaded from technet. The files
> are:
> 
> rpm -Uvh oracleasm-2.4.21-EL-1.0.3-1.i686.rpm \
> 	oracleasmlib-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm \
> 	oracleasm-support-1.0.3-1.i386.rpm \
> 
> When I tried to install these files, I got the following error:
> 
> Checking for Red Hat enterprise kernel:                    [FAILED]
> 
> Also when I try to run /etc/init.d/oracleasm , I get the same error
> 
> Checking for Red Hat enterprise kernel:                    [FAILED]
> 
> Am I having the right set of files.

	What kernel do you have?  Specifically, what does 'uname -r'
return?  Your kernel must match the naming conventions of RHEL 3.0
kernels.  Did you build your own kernel?

Joel

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