From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 16 19:46:21 2003 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 8DCEB16A4B3 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:46:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cryer.us (mail.cryer.us [67.64.95.209]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3788543F93 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:46:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phil@cryer.us) Received: from jorge.cryer.us (IDENT:99@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jorge.cryer.us (8.12.10/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h9GJlw05031807; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:47:58 -0500 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by jorge.cryer.us (8.12.10/8.12.4/Submit) id h9GJlvIR031806; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:47:57 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: jorge.cryer.us: nobody set sender to phil@cryer.us using -f Received: from 66.45.123.112 ( [66.45.123.112]) as user phil@localhost by cryer.us with HTTP; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:47:57 -0500 Message-ID: <1066333677.3f8ef5edbf305@cryer.us> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:47:57 -0500 From: Phil Cryer To: Nathan Vidican References: <20031016184928.M83226@vidican.com> In-Reply-To: <20031016184928.M83226@vidican.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.1 X-Originating-IP: 66.45.123.112 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [possibly OT]: anyone attempt running IBm DB2 for Linux, under emulation on FreeBSD 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: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 02:46:21 -0000 Quoting Nathan Vidican : > Can someone run IBm's DB2 for Linux, on a FreeBSD box? If so, will it > maintain stability even if at the loss of some performance versus running it > > on an actual Linux box? Does anyone have any experience with this, and/or has > > anyone out there tried this themselves yet? I have heard numerous success > stories running Oracle for Linux under FreeBSD... but have thus far been > unable to find anyone trying IBM DB2 with FreeBSD. While not completely related, I have been running DB2 at work for a test database running on Gentoo Linux. Since Gentoo is not an RPM based system (DB2 is only distributed as RPMs I believe) I had to install RPM, but after that, this doc walked me through getting it installed: http://kjeldahl.net/db2/ So, the point being, is that DB2 *can* work on non-RPM systems. For FreeBSD, you'd need to install RPM: $ whereis rpm rpm: /usr/ports/archivers/rpm ..and try to follow some of the above instructions. With the Linux capabilties installed, I'd think it might work. I'm still Goggling your query myself.... It looks like someone has successfully installed the DB2client on FreeBSD (they installed on a Linux box, and moved the files over) http://www.khmere.com/resume/bsd_db2.html Also, this page seems to infer that it's been done, but the link to BSD Today takes you to serverwatch.com, and I can't find the article there. http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1289 Here an IBM'r comments on the viability: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-March/000533.html If I were you, I'd post this question to: http://www.idug.org/idug/db2/listserver.cfm Regards P -- http://lefttochance.com/