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Re: Failed installation of 10g on White Box Linux 3.0 x86

From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:03:11 +0200
Message-ID: <da1irc$rd4$1@news5.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>


HansF wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:26:15 +0200, Matthias Hoys interested us by
> writing:
>
>

>>What could be wrong ? White Box = Red Hat 3, no ?

>
>
> No.
>
> White Box = White Box. The functionality is identical, BUT the strings
> have been changed to protect the innocent [from infringing on Red Hat's
> copyright].
>
> And it's the strings that are checked.
>
> Go directly to Werner's site (http://www.puschitz.com). Read a bit ....
> this ain't Windows, we don't encourage illiteracy <g>
>

Not all... :) Oracle identifies it as Red Hat AS 3 (but that has something to do with the *very* sloppy way strings are compared... A three anywhere is sufficient; Fedora Core 3 seems to install, too)
-- 
Regards,
Frank van Bortel
Received on Thu Jun 30 2005 - 15:03:11 CDT

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