From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 7 14:40:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rzpool01.rz.tu-bs.de (rzpool01.rz.tu-bs.de [134.169.9.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 149E037BDBC for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 14:40:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from y0002257@rzpool01.rz.tu-bs.de) Received: (from y0002257@localhost) by rzpool01.rz.tu-bs.de (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.8.6) id XAA20616; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 23:40:09 +0100 (MET) From: Sven Brandenburg Message-Id: <200003072240.XAA20616@rzpool01.rz.tu-bs.de> Subject: Re: Difficult Task: Oracle 8i EE on FBSD? To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 7 Mar 100 23:40:07 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL11] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I`ve received numerous postings regarding this topic and its progress via private mail - the topic seems to be interesting to a number of people, maybe we can start bugging Oracle for a native FBSD version ;-) The good news is: You *can* run Oracle 8i Enterprise Edition for Linux under FBSD. All Oracle demons (except one) work. The bad news: You have to do the installation using a native Linux (I`ve done it using SuSE 6.3 following closely the installation guide on their website), transfer the complete /bin /lib /sbin /usr/lib [..] stuff and the oracle installation itself to your BSD box. (All Linux libs under /compat/linux, please) After doing this, you *should* be able to start the oracle instance, create a database and do some simple SQL statements. There`s one major drawback: the listener doesn`t start. So, without it, the whole thing is barely usable but the listener just complains about some missing files and I didn`t try to relink the executable (http://www.scc.nl/~marcel/howto-oracle.html) I`ll give it a try within the next days - the progess so far looks promising. Sven -- #include To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message