Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 20:09:22 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: jkadams@computer.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Oracle 8i on FreeBSD 5.1 Message-ID: <41859AD2.8080008@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <41858BBE.1010804@computer.org> References: <418CE152.8070105@computer.org> <41858949.8030104@nbritton.org> <41858BBE.1010804@computer.org>
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Jon Adams wrote: > Nikolas Britton wrote: > >> Jon Adams wrote: >> >>> >>> BTW: please do not tell me to try Oracle 9i, or that I should use >>> another version of FreeBSD, or something like that, I am locked in >>> this hardware and OS, so I need to get it to work with the current >>> setup as much as possible. >>> >> What about PostgreSQL? :-) >> I had a hard enough time getting Oracle 9i2 installed and working >> with Redhat 7.3 for a Compiere ERP/CRM setup >> >> http://www.puschitz.com/InstallingOracle9i.shtml >> Follow that guide and setup a test system using Redhat 7.x. Once you >> are comfortable with installing/setting up/running Oracle on this >> platform you can tranfer that knowledge into setting it up in Linux >> Compat Mode (which essentially is redhat 7.2) on FreeBSD. Thats the >> only advice I can offer. > > > PostGres is fine, I use it in production on a Linux box that I host > sites on, but for the applications on my FBSD box, they _have_ to have > Oracle 8i (hardware doesnt support a newer version), but I will be > replicating Oracle 8i databases, stored procs, triggers, sequences, > etc... dont want to have to port the databases back and forth between > a different platfrom (i.e. PostGres).. note this isnt a production system > > I have set up Oracle on Linux before.. 4 times, on Red Had 7.1 and > 7.2... Its not that I dont know how to set up Oracle.. my problem is > really not that deep, its just that somehow the system cant find libdl > even though its there in /compat/linux/lib and i am using > /compat/linux/bin/bash as the shell.... I know either something is > wrong with my environment vars or I need to put an -L/compat/linux/lib > somewhere in the Oracle installation... I just cannot figure out > which it is... > > Thanks though... > Have you tryed these resources yet?: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu-oracle.html http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200402/oracle.html http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com/faq/portoracle.html
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