From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 24 17:16:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA18738 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 17:16:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA18733 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 17:16:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA08037; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 20:13:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 20:13:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Terry Lambert cc: Mike Smith , selvaraj@sri.lanka.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oracle8 Release 8.0.5 for LINUX 2.0.34 In-Reply-To: <199810242336.QAA00403@usr01.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Terry Lambert wrote: > > 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-). Last time I heard from John Dyson on this list about that, the FreeBSD version wasn't a publicly available thing. Love to have it, I'm doing a Oracle class project now, and it sure would be lovely to have (drool!) ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message