Re: Linux and Oracle

Jack,

I know SUSE support Oracle see : -

http://www.suse.de/us/support/oracle/

I have used Oracle 9i on Redhat 7.3 ext3 filesystem no problem (there is one bug on installation that I found, it can be reolved via Oracle Metalink).

See below for bug resolution : -

• fact: Oracle Server - Enterprise Edition 9.0.1
• fact: Intel Based Server LINUX
• fact: RedHat 7.1
• symptom: Installation fails
• symptom: Error during linking
• symptom: ins_plsql.mk
• cause: <BUG:1843232>. Versions of ld prior to version 2.11 ignored the "-z defs" flag. ld version 2.11 and later have the ability to use this flag. Because of this the genclntsh script fails to produce the libclntsh.so library on a machine running ld > 2.11. The "-z defs" is set in the variable LD_SELF_CONTAINED in the genclntsh script.

fix:

When receiving this error during installation, follow these steps:

1. Open a new console window on the host as the installation user.
2. Set up the Oracle environment (i.e. ORACLE_HOME).
3. Make a backup of the $ORACLE_HOME/genclntsh script.
4. Remove the ${LD_SELF_CONTAINED} flag from the ld command in the 'Create Library' section.
5. Run the genclntsh script.
6. Click on 'Retry' in the Universal Installer

The installation will now proceed.

This should be fixed in 9.0.2

Hope this helps,

Paul.

In article <9terjl$iii$1_at_innbox.cnet.com>, "Jack Dawson" <srik_at_cnet.com> wrote:

> I am planning to install RedHat Linux on my machine? What Oracle Version
> does this Linux support?
>
> Any feedback is tremendously appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Jack...
>
>
Received on Tue Nov 20 2001 - 19:35:37 CST