Re: Any luck with Mandrake Linux 8.1

Thanks for you reply. That's kind of the answer I was expecting, but not hoping for... :-)

So what distribution of Linux do your Oracle experts like? I'm installing Redhat 7.1 right now to try it with that distribution, just because I don't really have any experience with SuSE. Do you recommend SuSE over Redhat?

Thanks,

Michael

"TGGA" <tgga_at_THISWILLBOUNCE.viper.karoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:ub716her42bh92_at_corp.supernews.com...
>
> "Michael Segulja" <msegulja_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:i28v8a.6kd.ln_at_jedi.largemandigital.com...
> > Has anybody successfully installed 9i Application Server and 8i database
> > server on Mandrake 8.1? I have successfully installed the database
> server,
> > but I'm having trouble with the application server. I understand that
> > Oracle does not support Mandrake, but I'm curious to see if anybody has
> > managed to get it to work.
> >
> > I get about 27% through step 6 of 6 in the Portal installation, and
> install
> > fails with this message:
> >
> > ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [15456], [WMA_API_MODULE],
[13]
> >
> > I called Oracle, but they of course said that's not a certified
> distribution
> > so they wouldn't help me.
> >
> > Anybody have any ideas or ran into this problem?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
>
> Well I'm not going to be of much help to you either to be honest. I just
> read up on it on Metalink for you to see if I could find info and found
> nothing that would help you in any way shape or form. Oracles guidance
goes
> through a whole heap of stuff, not helping - but gathering info for them,
to
> send to them in case of this. . An excerpt is as follows:-
>
>
> Every occurrence of an ORA-600 should be reported to Oracle Support.
Unlike
> other errors, you can not find help text for these errors. Only Oracle
> technical support should diagnose and take actions to prevent or resolve
> damage to the database.
>
>
> The above says it all. There is no info and without a support contact (and
> on an unsupported platform, even gold bars won't get you one) you won't
get
> that help Unless you have good reason, I'd advise you to move to SuSE 7.2
> which is a supported platform and join the Oracle/SuSE mailing list. Sorry
I
> can't be of more help. Perhaps if there is enough call for it Mandrake may
> one day go for certification, as SuSE did. It is worth it to Linux
> companies, since the O/S market is tending to lean that way. Not that the
> serious (can I say that?) UNIX platforms will be dying out sometime soon,
> but it is gathering pace. At one time I wouldn't have attempted to run 11i
> on a Linux platform, those days are gone and yes I have done it. In saying
> that I stuill prefer my HP-UX 11.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Pete
>
>
Received on Wed Apr 10 2002 - 07:45:32 CDT