Thanks for everyone's responses. Thanks to Denny from IBM, I have got it working. I'll explain my problem and solution, so that it may help someone in the future.
Oracle's instructions tell you that you need patch 6007358(from metalink). Following their instructions, you do the 10g install(which gives you many errors), then put on 6007358. That didn't work, I still couldn't run the dbca or netca. Denny Pointed me to an IBM Redbook Tech Note, "Installing Oracle 10gR2 on SLES10 Linux on System z - July 10, 2007", which says "Run the OUI for 10.2.0.2 on SLES10 until you get the link error. Do not exit. Open a separate window to install the patch. Just leave the OUI running while you install patch 6007358 from another window. After installing the patch return to the OUI and click Retry." This worked for me and I am now able to configure and start a database. Gene Walters Systems Programmer WV Office of Technology 304-558-5914 x58284 Fax 304-558-1441 -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Friesenegger Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 10:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Oracle 10g on SuSE 10 Section 5.2 of the Oracle 10gR2 Release Notes ( http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/relnotes.102/b25399/toc.htm ) has the answer which is very hard to find... 5.2 Oracle Universal Installer Operating System Prerequisite Checks If you are installing Oracle Database 10g on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, then the current version of Oracle Universal Installer does not recognized these operating systems as supported operating systems and does not perform the installation.\\ There are 2 workarounds listed. HTH, Michael Friesenegger Linux/Open Source Technical Specialist email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cell: 303-249-0817 Novell, Inc. SUSE(r) Linux Enterprise 10 Your Linux is ready* www.novell.com/linux >>> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:08 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .gov>, "Walters, Gene P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone had any luck installing Oracle 10G on a SuSE 10 instance? > I've been trying for several days without any luck. I know it's been > certified by Oracle, but I can't get it to work using their > documentation. > > Gene Walters > Systems Programmer > WV Office of Technology > 304-558-5914 x58284 > Fax 304-558-1441 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
