Re: Oracle 8i on FreeBSD 5.1

2004-10-31 Thread Nikolas Britton
Jon Adams wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Jon Adams wrote: BTW: please do not tell me to try Oracle 9i, or that I should use another version of FreeBSD, or something like that, I am locked in this hardware and OS, so I need to get it to work with the current setup as much as possible. What about

Re: Oracle 8i on FreeBSD 5.1

2004-10-31 Thread Jon Adams
Nikolas Britton wrote: Jon Adams wrote: BTW: please do not tell me to try Oracle 9i, or that I should use another version of FreeBSD, or something like that, I am locked in this hardware and OS, so I need to get it to work with the current setup as much as possible. What about PostgreSQL? :-) I

Re: Oracle 8i on FreeBSD 5.1

2004-10-31 Thread Nikolas Britton
Jon Adams wrote: BTW: please do not tell me to try Oracle 9i, or that I should use another version of FreeBSD, or something like that, I am locked in this hardware and OS, so I need to get it to work with the current setup as much as possible. What about PostgreSQL? :-) I had a hard enough time

Re: Oracle 8i on FreeBSD 5.1

2004-10-31 Thread Jon Adams
Michael L. Squires wrote: Search the freebsd-messages mailing list, I think there is a web site which discusses Oracle installations later than 7.x. I am using a tutorial I found using this method, but this person's install didn't run into the ins_precomp.mk bug which requires the glibc stubs,

Re: Oracle 8i on FreeBSD 5.1

2004-10-31 Thread Michael L. Squires
Search the freebsd-messages mailing list, I think there is a web site which discusses Oracle installations later than 7.x. The other method I've seen discussed is to set up a LINUX box and install on that onto an NFS mounted directory (which has the same directory path on both the FreeBSD and LI

Oracle 8i on FreeBSD 5.1

2004-10-30 Thread Jon Adams
I am installing Oracle 8i (8.1.7) on FreeBSD 5.1 I am following this doc: http://iamphet.nm.ru/misc/linuxemu-oracle8i.html I get as far as the linking of Oracle 8i, when I am prompted with errors in linking $ORACLE_HOME/precomp/lib/ins_precomp.mk I know that this means I need the Glibc 2.1.3 stu