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Date:      Sat, 2 Mar 2002 16:58:46 -0600 (CST)
From:      Theodore Hope <freebsd@iguana.internexo.co.cr>
To:        drwilco@drwilco.net (Rogier R. Mulhuijzen)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: oracle 8.1.7.0.1 installation successful, anyone?
Message-ID:  <200203022258.QAA22377@iguana.internexo.co.cr>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020301000704.01bf9800@mail.drwilco.net> from "Rogier R. Mulhuijzen" at Mar 1, 2 00:13:43 am

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Doc, thanks for your comments.

We managed to finally install and use the "developer client"
part of Oracle 8.1.7.0.1 (on FreeBSD 4.5) following the instructions
from http://www.kiwi-us.com/~tokuda/FreeBSD/oracle816.html
(they're in Japanese, you'll have to use Altavista's translator
and a lot of imagination :-)

The main problem, which has been mentioned before, is the JDK/JRE
that comes in the Oracle distribution.  Changing this so that
it uses the linux-jdk and the Blackdown JRE (as mentioned
in Tokuda's document) is key.  However, once you get done
with installation you still have to change a bunch of the
shell scripts that Oracle installs so that they _also_
use the new JDK/JRE.  This isn't defined in one place, but
all over the place, so it's not really a good way to go.

Regards, -T.


> At 09:46 28-2-2002 -0600, Theodore Hope wrote:
> >We've tried installing Oracle 8.1.7.0.1 (for Linux) under
> >FreeBSD 4.5-release and end up with two "jre" processes
> >eating all the CPU and the infamous
> >"kernel trap 9 with interrupts disabled" message scrolling on
> >the console.  This has been reported before by others, and
> >I'm wondering if anyone has successfully installed Oracle
> >(8.1.x or 9.x) under 4.5-Release.  We can't tell if the
> >main problem is with the Linux emulation, or what; thus
> >my cross-posting.
> 
> I didn't succeed in installing 8.1.7 either, but I've been semi-succesful 
> with 9.0.1 lately.
> 
> I had to pull a few tricks but I got it to install. However, the relinking 
> of several binaries (like the RDBMS one) failed with some glibc errors, so 
> there's something not completely right with my linux libs.
> 
> 9.0.1's installer uses a JDK on the CD, but I ran it with the 
> linux-jdk1.3.1 too. The Universal Installer is just very sensitive pacakge =(
> 
> I used the RedHat7.1 port and added some devel rpms, made the oracle user's 
> shell /compat/linux/bin/bash (try a 'uname -a' when logged in with a user 
> setup like that, it's freaky) and I had to make a /compat/linux/etc/mtab 
> file to keep the installer from bombing when it tries to figure out which 
> filesystems you have.
> 
>          Doc

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