Re: Oracle 8.1.7 on AIX 5.1L

"Alexander Schneider" <aschneider_at_gicmbh.com> wrote in message news:<1001491292.42149_at_darkstar.de.imshealth.com>...
> hi there!
>
> i was just trying around to install Oracle 8.1.7 Enterprise Edition on a AIX
> 5.1L test machine.
> i was getting some errors during installation in the OUI with some
> makefiles. i set all the stuff in Unix like described in the Installation
> Guide, but i think it's all written for AIX 4.x.
> later on i can't create the database because he misses the file "libobk.a",
> but it's there (actually a link to "libdsbtsh8.a" is there, but this file is
> there too)
> does anybody have some experience with Oracle on AIX 5.1L? or does anybody
> have the same problems?
>
> bye
> -Alex-

Alex,

Only Oracle 9.0.2 is "projected" to be certified for AIX 5L. I tried to install 9.0.1 and I could not even get past the running of the script rootpre.sh (the first step in the install process that loads the kernel extension). The Post-Wait Kernel extension (pw-syscall) provided by Oracle fails to load as it is written for AIX version 4.x. Try this -
/usr/sbin/loadext -l /etc/pw-syscall

It will fail with an "Exec format error"

That means that the subsequent Oracle install is no good. 8.1.7 will not work on AIX 5.1. Try to install 8.1.7 on AIX 4.3.

Murali Received on Wed Sep 26 2001 - 21:58:36 CDT