Re: Oracle 9i on Debian
On Thursday 01 November 2001 06:14 pm, Anant Kabra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After struggeling for quite a while trying to get Oracle 9i running on
> Debian properly, I copped out and went the easy route. Since I wasen't
> ready to move from Debian to Suse just for a test/play oracle
> installation, I took the middle road. If anyone is interested, here is
> what I did to get Oracle working on Debian.
>
> 1. Make a seperate /usr/local partition
> 2. Make a new partition for suse install
> 3. Install suse 7.2 from the net (base + X)
> 4. Mount /usr/local on suse
> 5. Install oracle 9i on suse 7.2 with /usr/local/<whatever> as
> ORACLE_BASE (This goes without hitch -- hopefully)
> 6. Install the suse oracle package
> 5. Test if oracle works "/etc/init.d/oracle start" (Yes it does --
> hopefully)
> 6. Reboot to Debian
> 7. mount /usr/local on Debian
> 8. mount suse partition
> 9. chroot to suse partition
> 10. mount /usr/local on chrooted env
> 11. mount /proc
> 12. start oracle with "/etc/init.d/oracle start"
> 13. Thats it!!
>
> Interestingly, oracle runs from the chrooted env, but not directly
> from Debian. This is probably because oracle has a glibc 2.2.2
> dependency and I have a glibc 2.2.4 installation on my Debian system.
>
> cheers,
>
> -- Anant
hello Anant,
you are surely scratching your ear with the opposite hand...
...but it's good to know something like this can be done.
anyway, I'm running 9i directly on suse (it's a production machine).
cheers, dragos
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