From owner-freebsd-database Thu Nov 7 7: 4:29 2002 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 C304437B401 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 07:04:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from pebkac.owp.csus.edu (pebkac.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46B4A43E8A for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 07:04:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Received: (from root@localhost) by pebkac.owp.csus.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA43790; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 07:07:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Received: from localhost (scottj@localhost) by pebkac.owp.csus.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3av) with ESMTP id HAA43783; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 07:07:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 07:07:31 -0800 (PST) From: Joseph Scott X-Sender: scottj@pebkac.owp.csus.edu To: "Georg-W. Koltermann" Cc: Alex Vinogradoff , freebsd-database@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Oracle 8i In-Reply-To: <1036667363.2312.5.camel@hunter.muc.macsch.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 Sender: owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 7 Nov 2002, Georg-W. Koltermann wrote: # I tried it a while ago on FreeBSD 4.6R. I copied Oracle 8.1.7 from a # Linux machine. The Oracle software had the patches for compatibility # with a current glibc already applied. I've heard that this approach works, although I've never actually tried it. # I ran into a problem when I tried to create a database. I can only # vaguely remember what it was exactly, but I think the message had # something to do with "cannot determine tty". I traced the system calls, # and it was doing stat(2)s on all the /dev/tty* nodes. Then I gave up. # # I am currently struggling with Oracle 9i on FreeBSD 4.7R, also with # linux_base7. The best I get up to now is "lost connection" :-( Awhile back I came across PR docs/42058 (Installing Oracle 8i onto FreeBSD). I haven't had time to actually try this, but based on doing a recent install of Oracle8i on RedHat 7.x (.2 I think) it looks about right. You can find a complete version of the how to at : http://iamphet.fromru.com/linuxemu-oracle8i.html Note that this doc talks about doing the install on 4.5-R, so you may have to dig up some of the older linux emu packages. -Joseph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message