Re: 8i Install hangs before starting on RH 7.1

Andreas Stephan wrote in reply to Stephan Savage:

> Hi Stephen,
>
> you first have to read the RedHat 7.1 README. There you find a note for
> installing 8.1.x on RedHat 7.1. Problems arise
> cause of the newer glibc 2.4 in RH7.1 but Oracle is based on "old" 2.2.

Point of detail: are you confusing glibc and kernel versions? Oracle requires glibc 2.1.3, Red Hat ships with 2.2

See:

  http://jordan.fortwayne.com/oracle/817.html

and

  http://otn.oracle.com/software/products/oracle8i/files/READMEglib213.html

Pedantic regards ;-)

Ian Barwick

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