Re: Oracle 7.3 under Linux, any chance ?

there is a chance, Georg Rehfeld published a cookbook style description of this task. It is left out because it reads much better in html.
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Installation of ORACLE V 7.0.16.4.0 for SCO Unix on Linux V 1.2.1

Prerequisites

Linux kernel

       You didn't expect this!
make

       We have a GNU make with Linux.
iBCS2 emulator V 1.2-950308

       Allows to run binaries from other Unix systems on Linux. I had this software in my

       Linux distribution in diskzc1 (german S.u.S.E. distribution based on Slackware). You

       must recompile this, if you built a new kernel. five SCO Unix executables:
/bin/idar (archiver)
/bin/idas (assembler)
/bin/idld (linker)
/lib/idcpp (preprocessor)
/lib/idcomp (compiler)

       Get them, where you can, they are required for installation only. 200MB space in /usr/local/oracle7

       This includes the RDBMS, SQL*Plus, SQL*Net TCP V1 and V2, common files, the

       installer, the stage area, messages for all languages and the default database. With some

       care, it may be possible to reduce space requirement to about 120 MB.

Problems during installation

Main problems were:

    1.The install procedure did not make the scripts and executables executable, the mount of

       the CD under Linux left permissions as 444, no RockRidge extension (?)     2.The installer does not catch all errors, especially when attempting to compile and link

       libraries. One must carefully examine the install.log.     3.It took some time and experiments to figure out that for an easy installation the SCO

       executables are required. As an alternative, one must generate gcc, ld, as ... for SCO

       systems and use them instead. This should be possible, but I had the chance to use the

       idxx programs.

Cookbook follows here... Georg Rehfeld <rehfeld_at_wmd.de>, June 1995

hope this helps, Tom Received on Sun Nov 17 1996 - 00:00:00 CET