[opencms-dev] Will installing OpenCms really destroy a database.

[cfn at kb.dk]

Hello,

We are curently in the process of instrallin OpenCms for evaluation 
purposes and wonder
about something written by the installer.

We wanted to use our existing testing DB, but aborted the install when the 
installer
informed us that it intended to drop our database, thus destroying all 
existing content.

Is this really what should happen, or is "drop database" just badly 
translated from German
or some MySQL lingo where terms mean something different than in an Oracle 
environment ?

I would assume that adding a new schema for OpenCms to the database should 
be enough,
thus allowing OpenCms to work with an existing database.

So.

1. Will installing OpenCms onto an existing Oracle DB destroy its original 
content ?

2. Will installing OpenCms onto a separate instance on an Oracle DB server 
destroy
other instances ?

We are attempting to use OpenCms 6.2.1 on a Linux system with an Oracle 
10g (10.1.0.4).

Cheers,

Carl
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