[lug] Oracle 8i on KRUD/RedHat 7.1?

[Elyse Grasso]

Thanks everyone

On Tuesday 27 November 2001 01:48 pm, Riggs, Rob wrote:
> You need the compat-glibc package installed. Execute
> "/usr/i386-glib21-linux/bin/i386-glibc21-linux-env.sh". You must then set
> the environment variable "LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5". The client installer
> should work at that point. The server configuation process will not work
> without relinking a bunch of Oracle binaries. 
> 
> Better information can be found on the net by searching for "Oracle Redhat
> 7". This site appears to have good info:
> http://www.zx81.org.uk/computing/oracle/oracle-howto/redhat7.html
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elyse Grasso [mailto:emgrasso at data-raptors.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 1:43 PM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: [lug] Oracle 8i on KRUD/RedHat 7.1?
> 
> 
> Has anyone gotten Oracle 8i to install on RedHat 7.1? When I try to run 
> runInstall it starts the jre, which pegs the processor (according to top)
> and 
> does nothing else. I have waited over an hour for something visible to 
> happen. When I get tired of waiting, I have to use kill -9 to get rid of the
> 
> jre.
> 
> I have tried this with both KDE and GNOME environments, just in case Oracle 
> had made some silly assumptions. There was no other java installation 
> referenced in the environment of the userid that kicked off the installer.
> 
> Processor reports 851.943 MHz (1697.38 bogomips) and I have  512 megs of RAM
> 
> and more than a Gig of swap space configured. (top never reported more than 
> about 312 megs used while jre was running). This should be enough resources 
> for 8i according to the docs, though it might be marginal for 9i. 
> 
> Does 8i not like 2.4.x kernels? (that wasn't clear from the docs)
> 
> Should I uninstall Java? Wait for KRUD 7.2 to retry?
> 
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