From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 6 06:50:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA28899 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 06:50:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from itsdsv1.enc.edu (itsdsv1.enc.edu [199.93.252.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA28893 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 06:50:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dingo.enc.edu (dingo.enc.edu [199.93.252.229]) by itsdsv1.enc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA23816 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 09:49:54 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 09:54:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Owens To: questions list FreeBSD Subject: feasibility of running Oracle? How? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greetings, I'm may need to run Oracle (to be used by CS students) and I'd like to do it on a FreeBSD box. I've heard vague mutterings that such a thing is possible using the IBCS emulation, but that installation is difficult. Could someone whose done this sort of thing please comment and give me an idea of what I'm in store for? Specificly, some things that I'd like to know are: 1. What specific version of Oracle do I want? 2. How is installation accomplished (whatever isn't obvious) 3. Are there any caveats to running Oracle in this way (things that don't work, etc.) There doesn't seem to be any general docs for the IBCS emulation around. Or am I just not finding it? Any help appreciated... thanks, --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu "I read somewhere to learn is to Information Technology Services remember... and I've learned that Eastern Nazarene College we've all forgot..." - King's X -------------------------------------------------------------------------