From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 4 19:36:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hobbits.brel.com (hobbits.brel.com [203.127.231.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CECC637B718 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 19:36:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from calvinng@hobbits.brel.com) Received: by hobbits.brel.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5FF923328; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 11:36:29 +0800 (SGT) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 11:36:29 +0800 From: Calvin NG To: Mike Squires Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oracle816 install Message-ID: <20010305113629.B55670@brel.com> References: <20010302144026.23627.qmail@web4503.mail.yahoo.com> <200103031212.f23CCd333816@ct980320-b.blmngtn1.in.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200103031212.f23CCd333816@ct980320-b.blmngtn1.in.home.com>; from mikes@ct980320-b.blmngtn1.in.home.com on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 07:12:39AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings, The last time I did a install of Oracle 8.1.6 (or 8.1.7) some 6 months back, I NFS mount the FreeBSD system to a RH 6.1 system, and do the installation in RH onto the mounted disk. I think this was dicussed somewhere and I found it using Deja.COM (now googles). IIRC, it has something to do with the Java-based installer cannot be run on FreeBSD. Its doesn't matter which JDK you used (whether native FreeBSD port or the Linux one). Regards, /calvin lines with :> are quotes from Mike Squires's email :> > :> > I have been attempting to get Oracle816 for Linux :> > installed on my FreeBSD v42stable box. :> > :> :> After some months of monitoring various Oracle newsgroups it appears that :> the last version of Oracle to install under FreeBSD was 8.0.5, and that :> no one had been able to install 8.1.5/6/7. :> :> I am wondering if it would be possible to do an install under RH 6.2 (7.0 :> as from the CD doesn't work) and then move the binaries. This is not :> very expensive or time consuming in a world of $20 9GB drives. :> :> I'd be happy to find out I'm wrong... :> :> Mike Squires :> :> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org :> with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message :> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message