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
>
Don't the Itaniums have intel processors? You could run Linux as OS and then
there should be no problem to find a compatible Oracle release.
--
Gerard H. Pille
Received on Thu Jul 24 2003 - 10:10:48 CDT
