Doc, thanks for your comments. We managed to finally install and use the "developer client" part of Oracle 8.1.7.0.1 (on FreeBSD 4.5) following the instructions from http://www.kiwi-us.com/~tokuda/FreeBSD/oracle816.html (they're in Japanese, you'll have to use Altavista's translator and a lot of imagination :-)
The main problem, which has been mentioned before, is the JDK/JRE that comes in the Oracle distribution. Changing this so that it uses the linux-jdk and the Blackdown JRE (as mentioned in Tokuda's document) is key. However, once you get done with installation you still have to change a bunch of the shell scripts that Oracle installs so that they _also_ use the new JDK/JRE. This isn't defined in one place, but all over the place, so it's not really a good way to go. Regards, -T. > At 09:46 28-2-2002 -0600, Theodore Hope wrote: > >We've tried installing Oracle 8.1.7.0.1 (for Linux) under > >FreeBSD 4.5-release and end up with two "jre" processes > >eating all the CPU and the infamous > >"kernel trap 9 with interrupts disabled" message scrolling on > >the console. This has been reported before by others, and > >I'm wondering if anyone has successfully installed Oracle > >(8.1.x or 9.x) under 4.5-Release. We can't tell if the > >main problem is with the Linux emulation, or what; thus > >my cross-posting. > > I didn't succeed in installing 8.1.7 either, but I've been semi-succesful > with 9.0.1 lately. > > I had to pull a few tricks but I got it to install. However, the relinking > of several binaries (like the RDBMS one) failed with some glibc errors, so > there's something not completely right with my linux libs. > > 9.0.1's installer uses a JDK on the CD, but I ran it with the > linux-jdk1.3.1 too. The Universal Installer is just very sensitive pacakge =( > > I used the RedHat7.1 port and added some devel rpms, made the oracle user's > shell /compat/linux/bin/bash (try a 'uname -a' when logged in with a user > setup like that, it's freaky) and I had to make a /compat/linux/etc/mtab > file to keep the installer from bombing when it tries to figure out which > filesystems you have. > > Doc To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
