Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 10:31:13 -0600 (CST) From: shildreth@emsphone.com To: "Georg-W. Koltermann" <g.w.k@web.de> Cc: freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG, Donny Lee <donny@CoreBit.com> Subject: Re: Oracle 9i anyone? Message-ID: <XFMail.20021106103113.shildreth@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <1036570251.69552.19.camel@hunter.muc.macsch.com>
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Actually I was able to install 8.1.7 with the installer, if you look in the archives there was a link to instructions. On 06-Nov-2002 Georg-W. Koltermann wrote: > Am Mi, 2002-11-06 um 03.27 schrieb Donny Lee: >> [...] >> I'm starting trying, with 5.0-Current, and not much luck. >> >> How come this list is so quite? :) >> >> -- >> // Donny > > I can only figure that people (except for a very few) went away from > FreeBSD as an Oracle platform, because with Oracle8i it used to be that > you could not *install* Oracle on FreeBSD. The installer in 8i would > only run with the included Linux JDK 1.1.8 which used native threads, > and you may know that native (Linux) threads are very shaky in FreeBSD > -- most times you get core dumps. > > With 8i you had to install Oracle on a Linux platform and then copy the > directory hierarchy over to FreeBSD. Then it would work. It actually > worked very reliably that way, I have been using it for about two years > now, in software development. > > The problem is that 8i doesn't like newer Linux environments like > linux_base-7.1. For native Linux there are patches by oracle which make > it run, but for me the patches didn't work in FreeBSD (creating a > database aborted because it couldn't figure out the tty of the current > process). > > So now that I upgraded to 4.7R where linux_base-7.1 is the default I am > inclined to also upgrade to Oracle9i and see how far I get here. > > -- > Regards, > Georg. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: shildreth@emsphone.com Date: 06-Nov-2002 Time: 10:29:24 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message
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