Michael L. Squires wrote:
Search the freebsd-messages mailing list, I think there is a web site
which discusses Oracle installations later than 7.x.
I am using a tutorial I found using this method, but this person's
install didn't run into the ins_precomp.mk bug which requires the glibc
stubs, so it is rather unclear how to proceed. I really would like to
proceed with the install this way, the error seems to be something that
can be fixed by a -L/compat/linux/lib somewhere. I just cannot figure
out where.
The other method I've seen discussed is to set up a LINUX box and
install on that onto an NFS mounted directory (which has the same
directory path
on both the FreeBSD and LINUX boxes.
I also have heard this, and it will be my last course of action, but I
am really hoping to avoid doing it this way
Installation of 9i and 10g are covered for various LINUX distributions on
the site www.puschitz.org; the RH ES3 instructions work fine for at
least one RH ES3 clone, WhiteBox LINUX. All the instructions I've
seen call for installing different versions of various things, such
the the libraries; apparently Oracle looks for very specific versions
during the install.
I have installed on Linux before, thanks for the information, as far as
9i or 10g, as I said previously, unfortunately, I am locked into 8i,
it is the only version that will meet my needs. My hardware is not
strong enough for 9i, and it will be a while before I can upgrade the
box to something that will run 9i nicely. When I installed on the 2.4
Linux kernel in the past, it was, to say the least difficult (a 4 day
process of googling and tinkering). I am somewhat shocked that noone
has run into this in the past, and further why Oracle refuses to support
FreeBSD natively (at least with the newer releases).
I've never tried the installation under FreeBSD, postgreSQL is more than
sufficient for me needs (since I don't need to run any Oracle-based
clients).
Postgres is a very solid database, and I like it alot, but I pretty much
need oracle's functionality as I will be replicating databases from
another Oracle machine elsewhere. I dont want to have to modify stored
procedures and queries to handle differences in the RDBMS.
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