RH ES2.1, how to upgrade to kernel 2.6?

Michael Peppard mpeppard at impole.com
Tue Mar 2 14:33:54 UTC 2004


Looking at my last post I see I was a bit "glib" with you.  I apologize.
In my defense you had been very sparing with the information.

I 'm currently installing Oracle10g on Fedora and have installed
Oracle 9, 8 and 7 several dozens of times on linux.  The best website
I've found to help you is:
http://www.puschitz.com/OracleOnLinux.shtml

It explains how to get around the glibc issues and how to make
your application work around NPTL (Native POSIX Thread Library.)

I have no doubt Oracle will support the 2.6 kernel, eventually.  It has
alot to offer.  The suggestion to separate your services is valid.  Does
your application really require access to the local loop to access the
Oracle database?

-Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Adam Williams
> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 5:45 PM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: RH ES2.1, how to upgrade to kernel 2.6?
> 
> Sorry, doesn't work that way.  Oracle has very specific glibc 
> dependancies that it requires to install.  and our vender's 
> proprietary product also has very unforgiving gcc and glibc 
> requirements for their code to compile.  i'll keep trying.  
> thanks fo rthe help though.
> 
> Michael Peppard wrote:
> 
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com
> >>[mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Adam Williams
> >>Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 5:24 PM
> >>To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> >>Subject: Re: RH ES2.1, how to upgrade to kernel 2.6?
> >>
> >>Because my company relies on a proprietary piece of software that 
> >>requires oracle 9, and oracle 9 is only support on rh es
> >>2.1 from our vendor.  but since this server will soon be 
> our primary 
> >>server, the tape drive autoloader will be on it, and I need 
> large file 
> >>support for samba so I can transfers the backups from the other 
> >>servers to this one to write to the tape.  I was able to get all of 
> >>the rpms I needed updated, I foudn what I needed on 
> rpmfind.net.  But 
> >>kernel 2.6 still won't compile :(
> >>
> >>William Hooper wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Adam Williams said:
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>Hi, I know this list is for fedora, but I don't know of an
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>enterprise
> >>    
> >>
> >>>>mail list,
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/taroon-list
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>and I figured some of you out there may run ES 2.1 and
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>could help.  I
> >>    
> >>
> >>>>have a server I need to upgrade to kernel 2.6 for >2GB file
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>size for
> >>    
> >>
> >>>>samba file support.
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>[snip]
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>any suggestions?
> >>>>Thanks!
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>Since you are invalidating the support anyway, why not try
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>either FC1
> >>    
> >>
> >>>or one of the FC2 test releases?
> >>>
> >>>Of course if you want to keep support, try RHEL 3.  Not sure
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>if it will
> >>    
> >>
> >>>fix the issue or not.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >
> >ES 2.1 is a redhat product that's using a specialized 2.4.9 kernel.
> >Some of Mr. Cox's additions to kernel 2.6 are already in it, 
> >particularly if you've used your subscription to fix vunerabilities.
> >ES 3 has even more of 2.6 in it. You will have some serious problems 
> >finding **RPM's** that let you change your kernel to "2.6" 
> given that 
> >this shuts off your support from Redhat and Redhat 
> themselves haven't 
> >finished upgrading to kernel 2.6.
> >
> >Short answer:
> >Upgrade to Fedora core 1
> >su - root
> >cp /etc/redhat-release /etc/redhat-release.backup cat > 
> >/etc/redhat-release << EOF Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 
> >(Taroon) EOF
> >
> >You now have ES version 3... Sort of.  Oracle won't know any 
> different.
> >
> >Shorter answer:
> >Buy ES 3
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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