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Date:      Thu, 7 Nov 2002 07:07:31 -0800 (PST)
From:      Joseph Scott <joseph@randomnetworks.com>
To:        "Georg-W. Koltermann" <g.w.k@web.de>
Cc:        Alex Vinogradoff <fdisk@wananchi.com>, freebsd-database@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Oracle 8i
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211070703270.43390-100000@pebkac.owp.csus.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1036667363.2312.5.camel@hunter.muc.macsch.com>

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On 7 Nov 2002, Georg-W. Koltermann wrote:

# I tried it a while ago on FreeBSD 4.6R.  I copied Oracle 8.1.7 from a
# Linux machine.  The Oracle software had the patches for compatibility
# with a current glibc already applied.

	I've heard that this approach works, although I've never actually
tried it.

# I ran into a problem when I tried to create a database.  I can only
# vaguely remember what it was exactly, but I think the message had
# something to do with "cannot determine tty".  I traced the system calls,
# and it was doing stat(2)s on all the /dev/tty* nodes.  Then I gave up.
# 
# I am currently struggling with Oracle 9i on FreeBSD 4.7R, also with
# linux_base7.  The best I get up to now is "lost connection" :-(

	Awhile back I came across PR docs/42058 (Installing Oracle 8i onto
FreeBSD).  I haven't had time to actually try this, but based on doing a
recent install of Oracle8i on RedHat 7.x (.2 I think) it looks about
right.  You can find a complete version of the how to at :

http://iamphet.fromru.com/linuxemu-oracle8i.html

	Note that this doc talks about doing the install on 4.5-R, so you
may have to dig up some of the older linux emu packages.

-Joseph


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