Re: Oracle9i on Linux

Ok I got it working, but just a note about that. It looks like the compat-glibc-6.2....rpm has been updated in 7.1 there is no bin directory off /usr/i386-glibc21-linux so all that needs to be done is the export.

"Claus L. Rasmussen" <clr_at_cc-consult.dk> wrote in message news:3b312ae3$0$3240$ba624c82_at_nntp01.dk.telia.net...
> Stephen Savage wrote:
>
> > I've been trying to get 8i running on RH 7.1 with no luck. I run the
> > install, it looks like it should work(no error message), but the install
> > doesn't open up? Ever run into anything like this?
>
>
> The installation procedures for Oracle8i and Oracle9i are quite different.
>
> RedHat did some tweaking to the binutils package to facilitate the
 Oracle8i
> installation on RedHat 7.1, but at the same time Oracle did some tweaking
> to Oracle9i (upgraded from glibc2.1 to glibc2.2) that broke the Oracle9i
> installation on RedHat 7.1 :-(
>
> Anyway, to install Oracle8i on RedHat 7.1 you need to execute the
 following
> commands before starting runInstaller:
>
> export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5
> . /usr/i386-glibc21-linux/bin/i386-glibc21-linux-env.sh
>
> ^- Note the dot.
>
> Make sure you've got a lot of RAM before you try.
>
> -Claus
>
>
Received on Thu Jun 21 2001 - 09:11:02 CDT