Re: Oracle 9i R2 and Red Hat 9 Linux x86

From: Howard J. Rogers <hjr_at_dizwell.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 21:36:41 +1100
Message-ID: <3fb35ebe$0$13968$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>

"Dusan Bolek" <pagesflames_at_usa.net> wrote in message news:1e8276d6.0311130039.166a99c5_at_posting.google.com...
> "Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message
news:<3fb19cc2$0$20395$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...
>
> > Oracle will still run on it, with a bit of arm-twisting. See
www.dizwell.com
> > for info on how.
>
> Sorry, I didn't read the paper, because is quite big (7.2MB is quite a
> lot for 79 pages).

Lots of screenshots.

>However, I've read in the abstract something like
> "Downgrading glibc", that's probably an arm-twisting you're talking
> about.

Not just that.

> Isn't better just to suggest usage of RedHat 8, on which you can
> install Oracle 9.2 out of the box with no "twisting" at all?

That's not quite true, either. RH8 fails with an error on ins_ctx.env which requires some (minor) hacking to fix.

But whatever. The point is, people asked a lot about RH9, so that's what got written about.

Regards
HJR
> --
> Dusan Bolek
Received on Thu Nov 13 2003 - 04:36:41 CST