i suspect that oracle's site is behind the times. SLES 8 has been out for a while now and a good friend of mine uses it regularly to run oracle. regardless, i'm sure the novell folks would love to chat with you :-)
jason On Friday 07 November 2003 14:40, Ryan Leathers wrote: > Jason, > > The Oracle site says that if I want to use Suse I need Suse > Enterprise 7 Does 7 support 16 CPUs and can I still get 7 ??? > > Calling Suse puts me in phone tree hell with nary a human voice. > Calling Oracle gets me a human voice who directs me to the web page > telling me to use Suse Enterprise 7. > > I wonder if it would be faster to call Novell - wink > > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 11:47, Jason Tower wrote: > > it's worth noting that suse enterprise linux is also > > oracle-certified, and it supports 32 32-bit cpus (and 64 64-bit > > cpus). > > > > jason > > > > On Friday 07 November 2003 11:41, Ryan Leathers wrote: > > > The trouble there Joseph is that 2.1 supports only 8 CPUs and I > > > will have 16 so I am eager to learn that version 3 will work. > > > Contacting Oracle so far has resulted in lots of "mights" and > > > "probably will soons" but nothing firm one way or the other. > > > > > > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 10:36, Joseph Tate wrote: > > > > Well, according to what I understand, if you order RHEL you can > > > > run either 2.1 or 3. As for what Oracle wants, I'd stick to > > > > that to the letter, otherwise Oracle Tech Support (when, *not* > > > > if, you need it) will not be able to help you as well as they > > > > could otherwise. Call Oracle though and see how long it will be > > > > before they support RHEL 3. It could be a matter of weeks. > > > > > > > > Joseph > > > > > > > > Ryan Leathers wrote: > > > > > Hey gang, > > > > > > > > > > I have been tasked with a cool project. I get to spend a > > > > > small fortune on hardare (6 systems with 16 CPUs each) where > > > > > I will run Oracle9i/AS. > > > > > > > > > > The most recent Oracle9i/AS documentation says that if I > > > > > select Redhat as my OS I need: > > > > > Redhat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 2.1 > > > > > Kernel 2.4.9 > > > > > Glibc 2.2.4-25 > > > > > > > > > > I expect that I can use newer versions of the Kernel and > > > > > Glibc, but want to be sure before I place an order for RHEL 3 > > > > > and find out it won't work. > > > > > > > > > > If anyone can offer me peace of mind through confirmation of > > > > > personal experience I would owe you lunch or something :) > > > > > > > > > > -Ryan -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
