From owner-freebsd-database Mon Aug 21 0:35:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-database@freebsd.org Received: from news.IAEhv.nl (news.IAE.nl [194.151.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AE2937B422 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 00:35:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news.IAEhv.nl (8.9.1/8.9.1) with IAEhv.nl id JAA18769; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 09:35:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bowtie.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA18067; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 09:32:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@bowtie.nl) Message-Id: <200008210732.JAA18067@bowtie.nl> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Allen Pulsifer" Cc: freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oracle8iR2 (v 8.1.6.1) under FreeBSD? In-reply-to: pulsifer's message of Mon, 21 Aug 2000 03:06:19 -0400. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 09:32:27 +0200 From: Marc van Kempen Sender: owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Roger. Its encouraging to know it will run, once you get past the > installation. > > The installer runs under Java. I couldn't get it to run under the Linux > JRE. I tried forcing it to load the FreeBSD port (by editing the JRE > path in oraparam.ini), and then I got it to run but it wouldn't install > anything. It said there was a problem with the "staging area"(?) > (source files). It did manage to create a file > $ORACLE_HOME/../oraInventory/install.platform that contained the > following: > > [Platform] > > ID=0 > > That makes me think maybe it didn't detect a valid OS and aborted. What > does your install.platform file contain? Any ideas on how to fool the > installer into continuing? > No, I'm sorry, we just needed to get this running, and we took the pragmatic approach. > BTW, have you tried running any java inside the database to see if that > will work? > No, we just need the database, the java stuff is handled by the webserver. But I'm pretty sure it will fail too. If memory serves me correctly it hangs on the sigaction() function and friends. I once tried to get this running for the IBM jdk, but it's a pain to fix. I'm still hoping that some unknown genius will fix it :-) (I trimmed the CC: line, I don't think people want it to go to two mailinglists) Marc. -- ---------------------------------------------------- Marc van Kempen BowTie Technology Email: marc@bowtie.nl WWW & Databases tel. +31 40 2 43 20 65 fax. +31 40 2 44 21 86 http://www.bowtie.nl ---------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message