From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 7 15:24:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ux.accesscom.net (ux.accesscom.net [204.181.176.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8DC5237B598 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2000 15:24:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mlistbsd@icorp.net) Received: from p301.accesscom.net(204.181.189.1) by ux(smtpd 2.1.2) with SMTP id smtp015307; Tue, 7 Mar 00 17:23:56 -0600 Message-ID: <38C58F0A.B4D9FB5@icorp.net> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 17:21:46 -0600 From: James X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Sven Brandenburg Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Difficult Task: Oracle 8i EE on FBSD? References: <200003072240.XAA20616@rzpool01.rz.tu-bs.de> Content-Length: 1738 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The listener is a pretty critical piece of the Oracle system so I'd say there probably isn't a suitable way to run Oracle on FreeBSD at this point, which really sucks. I have a Solaris box running O8 and nothing would please me more than to move to the better-performing FreeBSD. Sign me up for whatever campaign we can engage in to make Uncle Larry come to his freakin' senses and port a native FreeBSD version. Sven Brandenburg wrote: > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message