From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 2 0: 5:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from omnix.net (omnix.net [195.154.168.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F9C037BCE3 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 00:05:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from didier@omnix.net) Received: (qmail 1562 invoked by uid 200); 2 Mar 2000 08:05:23 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Mar 2000 08:05:23 -0000 Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 08:05:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Didier Derny To: sven.brandenburg@bcc.de Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Difficult Task: Oracle 8i EE on FBSD? In-Reply-To: <200003012335.AAA27891@rzpool01.rz.tu-bs.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG with linux redhat 6.0 I've had the best results with jre117v3. OUI started but crashed serveral times but after having restarted I finally got a working system. On Thu, 2 Mar 100, Sven Brandenburg wrote: > Good evening, folks :-) > > I`ve chosen the righteous path to try an installation of Oracle 8i > on FBSDs Linux mode. I know. You don`t have to say anything. > Just stop reading. > You didn`t? > Ok, here`s my question,then : Did anyone complete an installation of > Oracle 8i Enterprise Edition on FBSD? I mean -- successfully? > > The problem seems to be the java installation tool ("Universal Installer"). > I`ve tried a number of different jdk/jre versions, both Linux and native > FBSD (the first seems to do better). It does run, you can choose file > locations, SID, group ids and so on. But when the actual installation > should take place, java dumps core with dust, explosions and a bulk load > of error messages. It seems to have difficulties with file access, > methods like "getUnixVolumeNames" fail. I`ve tried the following combinations: > Ora 8i 8.5.0 + FBSD jdk118 complete failure > Ora 8i 8.5.0 + Linux jdk117 works better > Ora 8i 8.5.0 + Linux jdk116v5 (jdk version recommended by Oracle) > Ora 8i 8.5.0.2 + Linux jdk116v5 (which is rumored to work with Linux itself) > > any ideas? > > best wishes and thanks in advance (for any input including "you stupid fool" ;-) > > Sven Brandenburg > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message