Ryan McNabb wrote: > I have a 700 iBook. How are the jaguar experiances with it? > > Also anybody get Oracle installed on one or a G3 powerbook?
If you read the stuff on Oracle's web site, Oracle Server calls for Mac OSX *Server* not OSX. Now, I don't know, beyond the administration software, the difference between OSX 10.2 and OSX Server 10.2 (there really shouldn't be any) but Oracle is not trivial to install under the best of conditions. (BTDT, bled on the servers...) But it may work, though, if you have enough disk space, memory, and the installer doesn't crap out on some missing library. We tried five times to get Oracle 9i for Linux to work, and never did succeed. We ended up just going with 8i. (This was at the same release level as the one for Mac OSX is right now, that is, early beta) The Oracle installer is probably (I haven't done it for OSX, just NT, Linux and Digital Unix) going to be different from a normal OSX installer, since Oracle uses their own java-based installer application for everything these days. (and lo and behold, *most* of their products use it!) Also, I don't know your experience level with Oracle. It is NOT Access. It is NOT FileMaker. It is NOT something you use to create your list of recipes. (well, if you're me, maybe, but I'm insane; I'm an Oracle DBA after all ;-). You do not end up with a fancy-schmancy GUI app to run it, make databases, tables, queries, etc. (I don't *think* they've ported DBA Studio to the mac) but a server process(es) running on your Mac, along with the listener, and paossibly other processes (I've not goit much experience with 9i, only 8i). Unless the installer includes the default database you have to create one before you can do much of anything. And don't forget to change your passwords. sys comes default to 'oracle', system comes default to 'manager'; you would be amazed and frightened to see how many oracle servers there are out there that *still* have those passwords...:-/ -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
