On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Bill Patterson wrote:
Who else is beating his head against the side of his PC trying to work
with Oracle 10g and Linux? 10g will only play with certain distros. To
make matters worse, my new PC, bought with 10g in mind, doesn't want to
play with Red Hat or Debian. It will play with Mandrake, but Oracle
won't. Woe is me!
In any distro, before running the installer try creating the following
file.
cat > /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Linux relase 2.1 (drupal)
Now the installer will think this is redhat and it will work.
more information at
http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/linux/install/index.html