From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 24 16:36:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA15765 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 16:36:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA15760 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 16:36:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA22805; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 16:36:09 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd022796; Sat Oct 24 16:36:06 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA00403; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 16:36:05 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199810242336.QAA00403@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Oracle8 Release 8.0.5 for LINUX 2.0.34 To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 23:36:05 +0000 (GMT) Cc: selvaraj@sri.lanka.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199810241911.MAA05590@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Oct 24, 98 12:11:18 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Please do not send emulation-related questions to the -hackers list. > > > I am using FreeBSD 2.2.2. Recently I have got Oracle8 Release 8.0.5 for > > LINUX 2.0.34. It was installed on the FreeBSD 2.2.2 with LINUX emulation. > > Oracle will not run on FreeBSD at this stage. It is likely that it > will not be supported on the 2.2.x family at all. Unless you get the version of Oracle that Oracle sells on their FreeBSD-running NC server, in which case it runs great on 2.2.6 and above. This would incidently make it a FreeBSD issue instead of a Linux emulation issue, killing two birds with one stone. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message