Of course its not possible with the current available Oracle Database versions. This is true for 816SE, 816EE and 817EE (tested 'em all) because of the glibc2.1.3 dependeny.
Because I was stupid enough to waste countless hours spending installing all oracle version above on woody over and over just to recognize its doesn't work I was also crazy enough to find another way without needing to go away from woody (Note: the main purpose for the following attempt was: no install cds and floppies at home for a potato fresh install and downgrading from woody->potato won't work; well, maybe, but thats another story). For simplicty, I just downloaded ftp://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/base2_2.tgz , made a directory called /potato , untared base2_2.tgz into it and chroot /potato /bin/bash 'ed into it. Some basic steps for this work is then create a small /etc/fstab so it knows at least /proc. Then, a /etc/hosts entry for localhost and a hostname for the local ip is needed. Fire up dselect, specify access method (I used apt of course), maybe you should first create your /etc/apt/sources.list, mine is echo "deb ftp://ftp.at.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free" > /etc/apt/sources.list echo "deb ftp://ftp.at.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list Do a dselect update, dselect select and finally install. Some notes: installing ssh, ftp, exim, apache etc. won't work in your chrooted environment if on your normal system those services are running on their particular default port. Anyway, there is real need for the chrooted system to run cron, exim, ssh, blabla .. you 'll get it I think. Then, copy the oracle install file somewhere to your chrooted environment and there your go; the rest is standard oracle install procedure. And, yes, Oracle 817 now installs and runs and I even can run my favorite woody system. Ah, what I forgot, possible trouble can come across you when accessing the local X-Server (And hey, since oracle 8 you *need* X if you don't have a proper response file [and even with this its a pain in the ass, believe me...]); export DISPLAY=:0.0 can work, DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 worked for me, but I also needed to do a 'xhost +localhost' on your current account running the xserver. And sometimes I even needed to copy my ~localacount/.Xauthority do chrooted:/home/oracle/ ; but well, you Linux Gurus out there know better way how to solve this problem. All the countless hours of work are dedicated to Tatjana. happy oracle-on-woody-in-chrooted-environment installing, Markus ps: I attached my chrooted:roots .bash_history so everyone can follow my stupidity. -- Markus Fischer, http://josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at/~mfischer/ EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key: http://josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at/~mfischer/C2272BD0.asc PGP Fingerprint: D3B0 DD4F E12B F911 3CE1 C2B5 D674 B445 C227 2BD0
mount /proc/ ps dselect clear echo "deb ftp://ftp.at.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free" > /etc/apt/sources.list echo "deb ftp://ftp.at.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list dselect nsl ping ping ftp.at.debian.org cat /etc/host.conf echo "nameserver 192.168.0.1" > /etc/resolv.conf ping ftp.at.debian.org echo $HOME cd pwd ls -la cd cd .. ls -la cd pwd dselect dselect dselect access apt dselect access apt dselect access dselect update apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get -u upgrade apt-get install apache apt-get install perl5 apt-get install perl pwd cd dselect updaet cd ls -la apt-get install apache php4 perl vi /etc/apache/httpd.conf apt-get -u upgrade apt-get install php4 /etc/init.d/apache stop /etc/init.d/apache start apt-get install vim vi /etc/apache/httpd.conf apt-get remove nvi dselect dselect dpkg --purge exim dselect install apt-get -u upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade w cd dselect dpkg --purge cron dpkg --purge at groupadd oinstall groupadd dba useradd -g oinstall -G dba -d /home/oracle -s /bin/bash -m oracle pwd cd cat - >oraclean.sh chmod 755 oraclean.sh cat - oraenv cat - oraenv.sh cat - > oraenv.sh chmod 755 oraenv.sh chmod 755 oraclean.sh cat oraclean.sh ./oraclean.sh ls -la /home/oracle/ su - oracle apt-get install xterm su - oracle vi oraenv.sh su - oracle apt-get install slay slay oracle cd ls -l cat /etc/group vi /etc/group vi /etc/passwd rm -Rf /home/oracle/ rm -Rf /home/oracle/ useradd vi oraclean.sh ./oraclean.sh cat /etc/passwd su - oracle cd su - oracle cd pwd cd /home/oracle/orainstRoot.sh cd passwd root tail -f ~oracle/oraInventory/logs/installActions.log less -n ~oracle/oraInventory/logs/installActions.log pwd vi /etc/hosts /sbin/ifconfig su - oracle passwd oracle su - oracle rm /etc/oraInst.loc su - oracle
