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Cecil D'Souza wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I need to install Oracle 8.1.6 Rel 2 on Solaris 2.6. When I attempted that,
> I get makefile errors and hence it turns out unsuccessfully. I then
> installed Solaris 8 and all went well. But now I have a problem, my object
> to install Oracle Clinical has stalled because it was meant to run with
> Solaris 2.6 and I am not able to install Oracle Clinical.
>
> It fails the installation at the start with java.io.ioexception errors and
> java.lang.nulpointer exception errors and comes out.
>
> I have no access to Metalink and hence I would like to know how I could
> overcome these makefiule errors in order to install Oracle 8.1.6
> successfully on Solaris 2.6 assuming that I reinstall Solaris 2.6 on my
> system.
>
> Any help or direction or guidance is much appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Cecil
I would start from scratch. But I sure wouldn't do it with 8.1.6.2. Unless, of course, you don't care about having an unsupported copy of the database and a version that was not one of Oracle's crowning achievements.
Daniel Morgan Received on Thu May 23 2002 - 16:46:52 CDT