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Date:      Sun, 30 Mar 2003 12:44:19 -0500 (EST)
From:      Matthew Emmerton <matt@gabby.gsicomp.on.ca>
To:        Adam <blueeskimo@gmx.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and Oracle
Message-ID:  <20030330124336.G29049@gabby.gsicomp.on.ca>
In-Reply-To: <1048855615.603.24.camel@jake>
References:  <20030328092535.GE3307@mich2.itxmarket.com> <1048855615.603.24.camel@jake>

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On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Adam wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 04:25, Michael Hostbaek wrote:
> > I have a linux box runnning Oracle, I'd like to switch it to FreeBSD.
> > Has anyone successfully run oracle on FreeBSD in a prodution
> > environment?
> >
> > I am using Oracle 8i - it should be possible to run it under FreeBSD
> > with linux emulation, right ?
>
> It can be an amazing pain getting Oracle to work on FreeBSD .. The only
> way I've ever heard of anyone getting it to work is to install it on a
> Linux box, then copy all the files over to FreeBSD, then use Linux
> emulation to run it .. Even this is a bit too dodgy for me ..
>
> IMO, better to stick with DB2 or PGSQL on FreeBSD.

DB2 on FreeBSD?  You must be dreaming the same dream I'm having :)

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Matt Emmerton



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