From owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 10 21:06:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-database@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-database@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C10B316A4C9 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:06:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-database@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37FD843DA0 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:06:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-database@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GXOmc-0006Vp-FK for freebsd-database@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:05:02 +0200 Received: from r5h168.net.upc.cz ([86.49.7.168]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:05:02 +0200 Received: from gamato by r5h168.net.upc.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:05:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-database@freebsd.org From: martinko Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:59:34 +0200 Lines: 46 Message-ID: <452C09B6.4030009@pobox.sk> References: <20060711162744.A22592@malcolm.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: r5h168.net.upc.cz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060923 SeaMonkey/1.0.5 In-Reply-To: <20060711162744.A22592@malcolm.berkeley.edu> Sender: news Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Oracle Client 10g on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-database@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Database use and development under FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:06:20 -0000 Mike Friedman wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE and I want to run a current Oracle > client-only with encryption support. > > First, I installed the Oracle client port, which represents Oracle 7. > But my database support person tells me that's quite old and, in fact, > he couldn't be sure it would work (especially the encryption part) with > the Oracle database I'd be using (which he helps support). And I was > getting some strange symptoms when I tested it. > > So, he recommended that I download the Oracle 10g Client for Linux. > Since my FreeBSD system is configured for Linux compatibility, I'm > hoping this will work. However, I can't even get the Installer to > complete! It keeps telling me that I may not have enough space in my > root partition, even though I'm not trying to install into the root > partition. (The partition in which I'm installing has lots of space). > > In addition, I should say that the machine on which this Oracle client > will be installed is not running X Windows. This means I can't use the > installation menus, so I've been running the Installation tool with a > 'response file'. The response file, however, doesn't have much > flexibility. In particular, when I'm told I may not have enough space, > it asks me if I want to continue, but there's no way for me to reply > 'yes' from the response file. > > In any case, based on the installation logs, it really looks like the > Installation tool is looking at the root partition for how much space is > available. > > I've found in the FreeBSD handbook an article on installing Oracle 8.0. > But it appears that there have been changes with 10g. Also, those > instructions seem to assume a server install, so they talk about setting > some shared memory values and other things that may not apply to me anyway. > > Do I have any other options? I don't want to install the full Oracle > package (client and server), just the client, so that I can write some > perl scripts to query a remote Oracle database. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks. > > Mike > Mike, have you considered linux-oracle-instantclient-* ports ?