On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Raul Acevedo wrote: > I'm having problems installing Oracle 8.1.7, using the same linux81701 > tar ball from Oracle's site I used to get it working on Red Hat 7.3. > > I unpack it, create the oracle user and dba/oinstall groups, but when I > run the run the runInstaller script, nothing happens and top shows a jre > process at 90%. > > Any ideas? I know Oracle 9 will probably work much better, but I need > to run Oracle 8.1.7. I don't even need the whole database to work, just > the OCI JDBC drivers and sqlplus. You are likely to have trouble running 8.1.7 on 8.0, since 8.1.7 is built against 6.2 (or possibly earlier), so the libraries etc. you need may not be in 8.0, even in the compat-* packages. Michael Young -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
