From: lorenzen@Winternet.com (James Lorenzen) Subject: Re: DEC Alpha Install Prob w/7.1.6 Date: 1995/08/28 Message-ID: #1/1 references: <41iqa7$lcf@blackice.winternet.com> <41tebh$qof@einstein.ghgcorp.com> organization: StarNet Communications, Inc newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle In article <41tebh$qof@einstein.ghgcorp.com>, daveh@ghgcorp.com (David L. Henning) wrote: > In article <41iqa7$lcf@blackice.winternet.com>, lorenzen@winternet.com (James Lorenzen) says: > > > >We are attempting to upgrade from 7.0.16 to 7.1.6 on our DEC Alpha server > >running OSF/1 2.0. > > [SNIP] > You never said whether you were rebuilding from source or not. I assume > not. OSF is pretty picky and usually requires all source (including > support utilities) to be rebuilt from scatch. It is a 64 bit UNIX and > not binary compatible with anything. You probably will have to wait > on Oracle to create you a special version. We have the 7.1.6 CDROM, but the RDBMS kernal needed to be relinked under OSF/1 3.x. I had tried to relink, but the OSF/1 2.0 prevented me from moving forward. Oh well, I wait for the UNIX Sys Admin to upgrade OSF/1 to 3.2. Thanks James -- lorenzen@winternet.com | Life is complex; it has | real and imaginary parts