[lug] Oracle 8.1.x on KRUD/RedHat 8?

[Andrew GILMORE]

>>> gfa at idiom.com 01/15/03 06:30PM >>>
>
>Does Oracle actually scream about the versions in the 
>installer or in the docs?
>
>My inclination might be to go ahead and try to run the Oracle
installer
>without altering your system and seeing if you get lucky.
>

I've done this with Oracle 8.1.7. It installs basically ok, but nothing
runs due to glibc problems. It shouldn't be too hard to try the compat
libs, but ??

Good luck.


>
>
>Not terribly hard to clean up after a failed/ bad Oracle
installation.
>Seems alot easier to give it a shot than mess with changing lots of
stuff.

Yep, not hard at all.

Andrew