[NTLUG:Discuss] RedHat version 4

[Tom Tumelty]

Yes Chris that is 100% right. They do have 10g. They are trying to not
spend money is what it comes down too but they want this hyperion thing up
and this oracle 10g db is part of the mix. i wish another db was possible.
Does china provide support ?

On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 12:07 AM, Christopher Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:

> On 06/05/2015 08:29 AM, Tom Tumelty wrote:
>
>> NEil, Thank You. I have found and suggested those.
>>
>
> So.. you are wanting RHEL 4.x
>
> Generally speaking, without RHN access, you'd want to get the CentOS
> version instead.  It will be 99.999% compatible.  However, Oracle was/is
> notorious for writing installation scripts that look for particuar versions
> of the OS... you may need modify it.
>
> Just about 2 years ago I setup an Oracle 9 on version 4.
>
> As with most things Oracle, their software was broken upon release, thus
> you really had to have Oracle patches to make it work.  China is your
> friend (unless you have an Oracle support contract).  I expect similar
> nonsense for 10g.
>
> Old CentOS can be found here: http://wiki.centos.org/Download (scroll
> down, you'll see them).
>
> Oracle 10g is a bit more difficult, but my guess is that you have it.  You
> just might need patches for it to work.
>
> Obviously, everything about all of this is completely unsupportable...
>
>
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