oracle on freeBSD

[Ceri Davies]

On 4 Jan 2006, at 18:59, eoghan wrote:

> Hello
> Im wondering if there is any info on getting oracle running on  
> freeBSD (im using 6.0). I have found this:
> http://www.scc.nl/~marcel/howto-oracle.html
> But it seems a little dated. I read oracle doesnt officially  
> support freeBSD and was pointed to a link here of people working  
> with it:
> http://twister.pp.ru/ora-fbsd
> I dont speak russian, but is this no longer being continued?
> Also, by oracle, I mean the database. i realise they have many  
> products...
> Any info would help...

In my opinion, the best online how-to for this by far is the one at  
http://www.shadowcom.net/freebsd-oracle9i/ - I intend to produce  
something for the handbook once I get the time, but if you follow the  
instructions there you will not go far wrong.

On metalink yesterday I noticed that "Intel FreeBSD" appears in the  
list of operating systems when you raise a TAR (whoops, I mean SR  
these days), so perhaps they will support it if you pay them enough,  
I don't know.

Ceri