From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 31 21:32:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5B7A16A4CE for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 21:32:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from x.ja6.com (x.ja6.com [64.239.13.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C3F643D69 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 21:32:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jkadams@computer.org) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by x.ja6.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i9VLWcwS022615; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:32:39 -0500 Message-ID: <418559F0.6090201@computer.org> Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:32:32 -0500 From: Jon Adams User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael L. Squires" References: <418CE152.8070105@computer.org> <20041031105030.Q51197@familysquires.net> In-Reply-To: <20041031105030.Q51197@familysquires.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: notspam (whitelisted), spamassassin (score=-104.9, required 5, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00, USER_IN_WHITELIST) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Oracle 8i on FreeBSD 5.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 21:32:45 -0000 Michael L. Squires wrote: > Search the freebsd-messages mailing list, I think there is a web site > which discusses Oracle installations later than 7.x. > I am using a tutorial I found using this method, but this person's install didn't run into the ins_precomp.mk bug which requires the glibc stubs, so it is rather unclear how to proceed. I really would like to proceed with the install this way, the error seems to be something that can be fixed by a -L/compat/linux/lib somewhere. I just cannot figure out where. > The other method I've seen discussed is to set up a LINUX box and > install on that onto an NFS mounted directory (which has the same > directory path > on both the FreeBSD and LINUX boxes. > I also have heard this, and it will be my last course of action, but I am really hoping to avoid doing it this way > Installation of 9i and 10g are covered for various LINUX distributions on > the site www.puschitz.org; the RH ES3 instructions work fine for at > least one RH ES3 clone, WhiteBox LINUX. All the instructions I've > seen call for installing different versions of various things, such > the the libraries; apparently Oracle looks for very specific versions > during the install. > I have installed on Linux before, thanks for the information, as far as 9i or 10g, as I said previously, unfortunately, I am locked into 8i, it is the only version that will meet my needs. My hardware is not strong enough for 9i, and it will be a while before I can upgrade the box to something that will run 9i nicely. When I installed on the 2.4 Linux kernel in the past, it was, to say the least difficult (a 4 day process of googling and tinkering). I am somewhat shocked that noone has run into this in the past, and further why Oracle refuses to support FreeBSD natively (at least with the newer releases). > I've never tried the installation under FreeBSD, postgreSQL is more than > sufficient for me needs (since I don't need to run any Oracle-based > clients). > Postgres is a very solid database, and I like it alot, but I pretty much need oracle's functionality as I will be replicating databases from another Oracle machine elsewhere. I dont want to have to modify stored procedures and queries to handle differences in the RDBMS. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.