It can be desupported, unsupported and anything else, but it is USED IN MANY
PRODUCTIONS. We have a few applcaitions which runs on Oracle8 only until now
(just migratying them).
Oracle wants... - they may want anything, but they did not provided
compatibility between Oracle 8 and Oracle9. The same with SLES - SLES10 is
not fully compatible with SLES9, so no matter who wants what, it's
impossible.
For comparasion:
FreeBSD 5 is COMPATIBLE with FreeBSD4
Solaris 2.9 is COMPATIBLE with Solaris 2.7
(most applicatuions, compiled on Solaris 2.7, runs on 2.9 without any
change. The same true for the FreeBSD).
But it is not true for Oracle, and it is not true for SuSe10, and is
partially true for SuSe9 (it's ALMOST compatible with SuSe8).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arun Singh" <Arun.Singh@(protected)>
To: <suse-oracle@(protected)>
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: [suse-oracle] Oracle 8i on SLES9 ?
Last I checked metalink/certify, Oracle 8i is Desupported (on all versions
of Linux and was never certified for SLES9). Works on SLES9 is a good news
but not supported for production. Oracle wants you to move to latest
version, so does SUSE ;-)
>>> On 2/12/2007 at 9:51 AM, "Alexei_Roudnev"
<Alexei_Roudnev@(protected)>
wrote:
> Yes, but how did you installed it? Installed on SLES8 and tar-copied, or
> just skipped 'linking phase'?
>
> I can confirm, that 8.1.7.4 client works on SLES9 SP3 (even on SLES9 SP3
> x86_64), but it must be copied as a tar archive, and not installed from
the
> scratch. I think, that server dont make much difference.
>
> PS. One more reason to stay @ SLES9 and not go to SLES10.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yoav Givon" <YGivon@(protected)>
> To: "Alexei_Roudnev" <Alexei_Roudnev@(protected)
> (FAW)" <Marco.Schwarz@(protected)>
> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 2:44 AM
> Subject: RE: [suse-oracle] Oracle 8i on SLES9 ?
>
>
> Oracle 8.1.7.4.1 works without any problem on sles9 SP3.
>
> Yoav
>
> Yoav Givon
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Alexei_Roudnev [mailto:Alexei_Roudnev@(protected)]
> Sent: Mon 2/12/2007 11:27 AM
> To: Schwarz, Marco (FAW); suse-oracle@(protected)
> Subject: Re: [suse-oracle] Oracle 8i on SLES9 ?
>
>
>
> You can try to take SLES8 Sp3, install Oracle 8 (documentation is on
> www.suse.com/oracle) and
> copy oracle base to the SLES9.
>
> It works for Oracle 8 client (we use such client in production with
> success), and it can work for Oracle database server itself.
>
> I managed to instal Oracle8 on SLES9 SP1 some time ago, but it was tricky
> and we did not relinked some components, so
> it may be much simpler just to clone Oracle8 from SLES8.
>
> Of course, such configuration is not supported by Oracle. Files are
missing
> because they was not relinked (you cant relink Oracle8 on SLES9, even
using
> compatibility rpm's).
>
>
> Another choice - you can find original version of your missing files
(before
> relinking )with the O (or 0) suffix in $ORACLE_HOME/bin,
> just rename it and try. Don't use AsyncIO and DirectIO (set up few writers
> instead of async io).
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Schwarz, Marco (FAW)" <Marco.Schwarz@(protected)>
> To: <suse-oracle@(protected)>
> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 1:13 AM
> Subject: [suse-oracle] Oracle 8i on SLES9 ?
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am about to set up some new servers, and found out that their hardware
> isnt supported by SLES8.
>
> I need to install Oracle 8.1.7.4 on these machines (can't upgrade to 9i or
> 10g, our apps arent ready for that yet) and thought about using SLES9.
>
> I did an install on one new servers, and noticed that some binaries were
> missing after the installation (glibc-stubs patch was used). Some files
like
> lsnrctl were missing, but I found files with the ending O (lsnrctlO for
> example) and copied them to get thing running (e.g. cp lsnrctlO lsnrctl).
>
> I've been doing a DB import and some quick tests now, everything seems to
be
> running so far ...
>
> So now I've been wondering if anyone else has tried to do this (8i with
> SLES9) and how it has been done ...
>
> I have been thinking about an installation of 8i on SLES8, then tar-ing
the
> whole stuff and copying it to the new SLES9 box ... would this be working
?
>
> Any thoughts on this matter are highly appreciated. I need to replace one
of
> the old servers this week, and I don't like ugly surprises while
installing
> it at the clients site ;-)
>
> Best regards,
> Marco Schwarz
>
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