Hi,
If I remember correctly, you'll have a hard time installing the database unless you can run the older version of Java: the NetCA that runs to create your database and setup your tnsnames.ora file requires JDK 1.1 and won't work on any newer version (it will complain about permissions or something). Unless you really have to stick with Gentoo, I would recommend going to an older version of some other distro (with a compatible libc), or upgrading to Database 10g. That being said I have managed to install DB 9i on Gentoo, but only after installing gcc 2.95, compiling an older glibc somewhere else without NPTL, and I still had to build my tnsnames.ora manually.
Good luck!
Chris
PS: I'm doing an internship at Oracle, if that's any help.
Frank Schafer wrote:
Hi,
did you check all the Oracle prerequisites? I had very similar behaviour on a machine with insufficient amount of (physical) memory.
Regards Frank
PS: You could try installing via ``automatic response file'' avoiding the ``Universal Installer'' which is (hmm, Java) simply a ressource eater.
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 21:19 +0000, Konstantinos Agouros wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to install Oracle 9i Release2. I had to change the java-binary
and replace it with a link to the blackdown jdk because of LIBC incompatibilities. Now when I start runInstaller a window opens after the splash screen, I have a whole lot of java processes of which (according to top) none is doing anything, and the window stays grey (remotelogin via ssh).
Did anybody install this and have success?
There is a guy that works at oracle that uses Gentoo. He has got it (9i, I guess R2) running fine and has instructions somewhere. He may mention something cos I think he reads this list. It certainly doesn't require gcc 2.95. I think I had it completely installed but seeing as I know extremely little about oracle couldn't import the database I wanted to, so couldn't really test it.
Cheers
Antoine
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