[TriLUG] Oracle on Linux

[Ron Joffe]

I have had heavy background in using SuSE 7.2 and Oracle 9i. SuSE is 
really set up from the get go with full support for Oracle. They have an 
extensive support group (mail list) which covers install through oracle 
production issues.

I would highly recommend that you at least try SuSE. It's not all that 
different from Red-Hat and since most likely this will be a standalone server 
instellation, the differences will be minimal. Take a look at 
www.suse.com/oracle and in metalink under product lifecycle / certification. 
Since not everyone has access to metalink, I have copied the 9i 
certifications below:

 Server Certifications

OS                                      Product
--------------------------------------- ------------------
SuSE SLES7                              9.0.1 (9i) 
SuSE 7.2                                9.0.1 (9i) 
SuSE 7.1                                9.0.1 (9i) 
Red Hat 7.1                             9.0.1 (9i) 
Red Hat 7.0                             9.0.1 (9i) 
Intel Caldera Open Unix 8 with LKP 8.0  9.0.1 (9i)

This is what is currently under the oracle certification for 9i.

I have also run oracle on SuSE 7.3 without any problems. I just got SuSE 8.0 
in, and will probably have that set up with 9i in the next week or so.

Ron



On Friday 26 April 2002 13:43, you wrote:
> I have to investigate the Solaris side as well. Please let me know how it
> went.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: J Johnson [mailto:justin at eCotton.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 1:22 PM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Oracle on Linux
>
> > I'm writing a proposal for an Oracle 9i server on Linux. I want to use
> > RedHat Linux 7.2 since I'm the most familiar with it, but
> > according to the
> > Oracle 9i release notes, Oracle 9i is only "certified" on
> > SuSe 7.1. Has
> > anyone had experience with O9i on RHL 7.2? Documentation,
> > white papers?
>
> Here's a 'howto' I found via Googgle using  +"Oracle 9i" +"Red Hat 7.1"
> +howto as the search criteria:
> http://www.puschitz.com/InstallingOracle9i.html It looks fairly thorough,
> but does not appear to implement Oracle OFA (if you even care too).
>
> Maybe I'll try it out this weekend and if so I'll let you know if I hit any
> snags.
>
> I've installed 9i on Solaris, but not Linux.
>
> HTH,
> Justin
>
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Ron Joffe
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