Oracle 8i on FreeBSD 5.1

[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 had a hard enough time getting Oracle 9i2 installed and working with 
> Redhat 7.3 for a Compiere ERP/CRM setup
>
> http://www.puschitz.com/InstallingOracle9i.shtml
> Follow that guide and setup a test system using Redhat 7.x. Once you 
> are comfortable with installing/setting up/running Oracle on this 
> platform you can tranfer that knowledge into setting it up in Linux 
> Compat Mode (which essentially is redhat 7.2) on FreeBSD. Thats the 
> only advice I can offer.

PostGres is fine, I use it in production on a Linux box that I host 
sites on, but for the applications on my FBSD box, they _have_ to have 
Oracle 8i  (hardware doesnt support a newer version), but I will be 
replicating Oracle 8i databases, stored procs, triggers, sequences, 
etc... dont want to have to port the databases back and forth between a 
different platfrom (i.e. PostGres).. note this isnt a production system

I have set up Oracle on Linux before.. 4 times, on Red Had 7.1 and 
7.2... Its not that I dont know how to set up Oracle.. my problem is 
really not that deep, its just that somehow the system cant find libdl 
even though its there in /compat/linux/lib and i am using 
/compat/linux/bin/bash as the shell.... I know either something is wrong 
with my environment vars or I need to put an -L/compat/linux/lib 
somewhere in the Oracle installation...  I just cannot figure out which 
it is...

Thanks though...

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