[TriLUG] Oracle9i AS on Redhat9

[Jason Tower]

i suspect that oracle's site is behind the times.  SLES 8 has been out 
for a while now and a good friend of mine uses it regularly to run 
oracle.  regardless, i'm sure the novell folks would love to chat with 
you :-)

jason

On Friday 07 November 2003 14:40, Ryan Leathers wrote:
> Jason,
>
> The Oracle site says that if I want to use Suse I need Suse
> Enterprise 7 Does 7 support 16 CPUs and can I still get 7 ???
>
> Calling Suse puts me in phone tree hell with nary a human voice.
> Calling Oracle gets me a human voice who directs me to the web page
> telling me to use Suse Enterprise 7.
>
> I wonder if it would be faster to call Novell - wink
>
> On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 11:47, Jason Tower wrote:
> > it's worth noting that suse enterprise linux is also
> > oracle-certified, and it supports 32 32-bit cpus (and 64 64-bit
> > cpus).
> >
> > jason
> >
> > On Friday 07 November 2003 11:41, Ryan Leathers wrote:
> > > The trouble there Joseph is that 2.1 supports only 8 CPUs and I
> > > will have 16 so I am eager to learn that version 3 will work. 
> > > Contacting Oracle so far has resulted in lots of "mights" and
> > > "probably will soons" but nothing firm one way or the other.
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 10:36, Joseph Tate wrote:
> > > > Well, according to what I understand, if you order RHEL you can
> > > > run either 2.1 or 3.  As for what Oracle wants, I'd stick to
> > > > that to the letter, otherwise Oracle Tech Support (when, *not*
> > > > if, you need it) will not be able to help you as well as they
> > > > could otherwise. Call Oracle though and see how long it will be
> > > > before they support RHEL 3.  It could be a matter of weeks.
> > > >
> > > > Joseph
> > > >
> > > > Ryan Leathers wrote:
> > > > > Hey gang,
> > > > >
> > > > > I have been tasked with a cool project.  I get to spend a
> > > > > small fortune on hardare (6 systems with 16 CPUs each) where
> > > > > I will run Oracle9i/AS.
> > > > >
> > > > > The most recent Oracle9i/AS documentation says that if I
> > > > > select Redhat as my OS I need:
> > > > > Redhat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 2.1
> > > > > Kernel 2.4.9
> > > > > Glibc 2.2.4-25
> > > > >
> > > > > I expect that I can use newer versions of the Kernel and
> > > > > Glibc, but want to be sure before I place an order for RHEL 3
> > > > > and find out it won't work.
> > > > >
> > > > > If anyone can offer me peace of mind through confirmation of
> > > > > personal experience I would owe you lunch or something :)
> > > > >
> > > > > -Ryan