From owner-freebsd-database Thu Nov 7 21: 3: 6 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 A18DE37B401 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 21:03:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (ns2.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0616A43E77 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 21:02:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fdisk@wananchi.com) Received: from [62.8.64.88] (helo=Gecko) by ns2.wananchi.com (Exim 4.10.8 #2 (FreeBSD)) protocol: smtp id 18A1HI-0009q1-00 for ; Fri, 08 Nov 2002 08:01:56 +0300 Message-ID: <001b01c286e4$22f5e140$5840083e@wananchi.com> From: "Alex Vinogradoff" To: References: Subject: Re: Oracle 8i Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 08:03:10 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *18A1HI-0009q1-00*SR70xs/VRBI* 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 Thanks a lot, but the question is about the linux_base7... Oracle works perfectly with linux_base6, it is known. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Scott" To: "Georg-W. Koltermann" Cc: "Alex Vinogradoff" ; Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 6:07 PM Subject: Re: Oracle 8i > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message