On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:03:59 -0600, Gregory G Carter <gcarter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Bad question to ask. > > What you are asking will land anyone in here in jail in a country with > software patents or part of the trading block of the USA and requires > reverse engineering the installer, and certain sections of the software > to determine how it installs itself. > > That is highly illegal, and it violates the software agreement you > agreed to when you downloaded 10g anyway. > > Only install the Oracle database on a validated copy of Linux for which > it is designed if you want to stay out of jail. > There isn't any language that I can see in the download click-through license that specifically prohibits installing Oracle software on an unsupported platform. If you download the software and use the '-ignoreSysPrereqs' option or edit the oraparam.ini file, are you reverse engineering anything? I wouldn't think so. I'm not a lawyer, but if Oracle really was concerned about this whole issue, the websites with specific infomation on doing Fedora or Gentoo installs and the like would be served with take-down notices pretty quickly. Oracle has no shortage of lawyers; just bigger fish to fry so to speak. --Glenn Stauffer