Re: Problems installing Oracle9i on Fedora with 256 RAM

"Paul Drake" <drak0nian_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1ac7c7b3.0403171647.4a864791_at_posting.google.com...
> "Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message
news:<405878a0$0$8359$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...
> > Fedora is, to coin a phrase, a steaming pile of ... er, well, you get
the
> > picture.
> >
> > It doesn't install as a Vmware guest. It won't install onto my (very
much
> > physical) laptop.
> >
> > This despite Mandrake 9, Mandrake 9.1, Suse 7.2, Suse 7.3, RHAS2.1,
RHAS3,
> > RH8, RH9 and Xandros all installing perfectly onto both.
> >
> > I thought Microsoft got a bad name for making their users beta test
their
> > software?!
> >
> > And yes, I know Fedora is the "experimental" branch of the Red Hat tree.
But
> > I think in the context of Oracle I would leave the experimenting to
others.
> >
> > Regards
> > HJR
>
> Howard,
>
> someone was nice enough to post this on the ORACLE-L today:
>
> ===========================================================
> 1) There is a new 4.5 version of VMWare Workstation
> (dated 15 Mar 2004) that now additionally supports:

That's nice, Paul. I was there last night having a look to see whether there was a new version, but couldn't see it. Thanks for the heads-up. Shame it's now 34MB of download, instead of the previous 23MB or so, though!!

> A) RH Enterprise 3.0 as a Guest OS

(Dunno about that. It's been working fine for me in the old version as it is!).

> B) Support for SuSE LINUX 9.0 as a Guest OS
> C) Updated LINUX support for 2.6 kernels, and some
> advanced features in RH 9 as a Guest OS.
> D) Support for Netware 6.5 as a Guest OS.
>
> The complete Guest OS info can be viewed at:
> http://www.vmware.com/support/guestnotes/doc/index.html
> ===========================================================
>
> RedHat 9 is listed, Fedora is not.

Jeez!

>
> hth.

It does a lot. Thanks again.

Regards
HJR Received on Wed Mar 17 2004 - 18:52:43 CST