Date: Tue, 1 Aug 95 17:43:20 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: paul@freebsd.org Cc: owensc@alpha.enc.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iBCS SCO status, Locus Merge Message-ID: <9508012343.AA05677@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199508011309.OAA04364@server.netcraft.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Aug 1, 95 02:09:01 pm
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[ ... use Merge/386 ... ] > Hmm, interesting idea of shortcutting our path to DOS support but I bet it > needs a vm86 call :-( It needs more than that. It needs to be able to specify segment size and a lot of other crap -- on top of needing VM86() support. Some of the work is already in place because of WINE. Most isn't. > Anyway, anyone got any experience with running commercial databases under > FreeBSD. Someone here wants to run a database and is willing to buy > a commercial product so I'm trying to find out if anyone's got any reports > of using anything succesffully. I have run Sybase for the AT&T StarServer. Install is a bitch. Part of IBCS2 needs to be the platform install tools. I had the same problem installing Lotus 1-2-3 for UNIX. I manually installed the Sybase by reading what it was doing and doing each step manually. Figure an hour to an hour and a half. The Lotus I bailed on. I renamed a genuine SVR4.0.2 box, installed it, and then moved the binary images over. Their copy protection is about as dumb as FrameMaker's license management, and as relatively easy to break when you need to. The Sybase install was complicated by needing /dev/socket to run. Check the Linux sources on how to implement /dev/socket, which you will need to do. I don't have an unencumbered version lying around. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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