Install Oracle 10g or 9i failed with FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

[Cédric Jonas]

On Sat, 28 May 2005 22:59:49 +0200
martinko <martinkov at pobox.sk> wrote:

> i've just tried the same -- installing oracle 10.1.0.3 on freebsd 5.4-R 
> -- without success.
> i followed daemonnews, the handbook, oracle guides for linux and some 
> others, but:
> first, runInstaller failed due to unsupported OS -- this wasn't 
> mentioned anywhere -- i tried to patch oraparam.ini but i failed :(
> second, i just tried to run 'runInstaller --help' and it crashed when 
> initialising (see below) with java process using 100% cpu. :-(
> 
> is there nobody who have successfully installed oracle 10g on freebsd 
> 5.[3|4] ?
> or is just noone willing to share their how-to on this subject?


Hi,

The Oracle 10g installation fails because there are some Linux system calls which aren't implemented in the actual Linux emulation. However, there's hard work in CURRENT to update the Linux emulation... 
Oracle 9i will run (if you don't need iSQL*Plus), but if you need absolutely Oracle 10g now, I think the best solution is to install it on a Debian box, and to keep a look on the evolution of the Linux emulation...

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Best regards, 
 Cédric Jonas