Re: Is it just me?

"Paul Moore" <pf_moore_at_yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:oes8t9nf.fsf_at_yahoo.co.uk...
> "Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> writes:
>
> > Or am I not alone in feeling rather underwhelmed by the 10g new features
> > document?
>
> The thing that spectacularly annoyed me is the "mother-knows-best" 10g
> Linux installer. For chrissakes, it's got an OS version check in it!
>
> I just spent ages downloading the thing, only to find it won't install
> on my only available test box, running SuSE 8 (.1 or .2, I forget...)
> Professional.
>
> Yes, I KNOW it's not a supported OS. But 9.2 ran fine on it, and that
> wasn't supported either. I don't intend to raise TARs with Oracle
> asking how to install. I don't want support when it goes wrong. I just
> want to *try* the ^&($^% thing. So that I can tell my customers how
> wonderful it is, and suggest that they buy it.
>
> I suppose someone will, in due time, post somewhere a method of
> bypassing this obnoxious check, and so I'll be able to load 10g. Or I
> could wait until 10g for Windows and put that on a Windows box
> somewhere. But maybe I just won't bother :-(
>
> That really spoilt my day.
>
> Paul.
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I had the same problem on redhat 9 - edit the oraparam.ini file and edit the supported versions section - installed really quickly and createda test db really quickly on a crappy box Received on Mon Feb 09 2004 - 14:26:17 CST