Hello Stan, This is perhaps not helpful at all, but you said "any input". Take it for what it's worth... :)
"Stan Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Oracle installer simply core dumps. A kind soul sufested downgrading > binutils to the potato version and trying. This leaves me with several > questiosn. > > 1. Since the installer won;t run at all, isn't it likely that I also need > to downgrade libc? I installed O8i over a year ago, on a SuSE-box. It was a 2.2 kernel of some sort. It worked after some fuzz. If I recall correctly, the installation program was written in java, and it had a hard time working with the currently installed JRE. I think I removed the JRE installed and used the one shipped with the Oracle CD:s. I also remember changing some shared-memory options in the kernel and recompiling. It was stated in the installation manual what I needed to do. Without these changes, it would dump core. Now, (again IIRC :) the java installer didn't work 100% correctly anyway, but I think it generated the configuration file, with all the environment options, but failed when invoking the real installation program. So what I did to get it running was to use the installation program to generate the desired configuration, and then I invoked the "real" installer manually. > Any inpit, whatsover would eb helpful. This was definitely a "whatsoever", I really hope that it helps you. If you don't get it running, I think you should consider a SuSE or Redhat box, they are configured and "Oracle compliant". Take it for what it's worth. Also, I would check out the news groups for oracle, they helped me sorting it out. (comp.db.oracle? Search on dejanews) Best regards and good luck! - Petter -- Petter Isaksson | Expert, n.: 0733 - 60 07 70 | Someone who comes from out 013 - 17 90 45 | of town and shows slides