RE: Oracle 8i R2 on a woody box

[Damian Gerow <dgerow@ardesic.com>]

> > I can get it to install fine, and the listener will run properly, but on 
> > creation of a database, dbassist stops at 2% and sits there (the second 
> > stage, "Creating Database Files").  I noticed that Oracle pretty much 
> > requires the original-awk installed, with a link to /bin/awk from 
> > /usr/bin/awk. 
> >  
>  
> oracle also expects a few kernel and glibc tweaks debian is not currently 
> doing.  I suspect you will have to run RH 6.2 for now, however Debian and 
> Oracle will work together in the (hopefully near) future. 

Thanks for the quick reply.

I guess I'll just have to wait until they play nicely.