Re: Install Oracle 8i for HP-UX PA-RISC on HP-UX Itanium?

Hi Brian,

it's a new server without any database. It was meant to replace the old PA-RISC server with the 7.3.4 database.

Regards,
Ulrich

Brian Peasland schrieb:

> Is it possible? Maybe. Is it probable? Not likely. You are running into
> problems with the system libraries and other things that pertain to your
> architecture, for which Oracle was not designed to run on.
>
> From Metalink, I see that only Oracle 9.2 64-bit is certified on HP
> Itanium. How do you have 7.3.4 on this server?
>
> Cheers,
> Brian
>
> Ulrich Pansegrau wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > we're currently migrating our old databases (version 7.3.4) to Oracle 9i
> > R2. Some of the databases must be migrated to 8i in an intermediate step
> > because they must still be able to communicate with the 7.3.4 databases
> > that haven't been migrated to 9i yet.
> >
> > One of our servers that must be brought to 8i is a HP rx2600 Itanium
> > machine with HP-UX 11.22. Unfortunately, Oracle 8i isn't certified for
> > HP-UX Itanium. Nevertheless I tried to install Oracle 8.1.7 for HP-UX
> > 11i PA-RISC (which should be compatible with HP-UX Itanium) on that
> > machine and got lots of errors like
> >
> > "ar: /home2/oracle/product/8.1.7/lib/libn8.a not in archive format"
> > and
> > "ld: Mismatched ABI (not an ELF file) for -lagent8"
> >
> > Is it possible to install Oracle 8i on my Itanium machine? Maybe I just
> > need to set some compiler options or use another compiler?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Ulrich
>
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