[OmniOS-discuss] Oracle 11g/12c on OmniOS

[Scott Roberts]

It is an experiment, nothing more.  If there was a way to do a text-based
install I would have dispensed with X entirely.

I tried installing X using pkgsrc using various instructions but never got
it to actually start up an X server nor successfully pass the display back
via SSH.

On 11/25/13, 1:23 PM, "Paul B. Henson" <henson at acm.org> wrote:

>
>> On Nov 25, 2013, at 7:58 AM, Scott Roberts <scotty at jhu.edu> wrote:
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>> Does anyone have experience installing Oracle under OmniOS?
>
>Out of curiosity, why are you trying to get oracle working under omnios?
>Obviously they're not going to support it (I have enough trouble getting
>oracle installed/getting support on officially validated operating
>systems ;) ). As long as you're going with the open source os, why not a
>nice open source database like Postgres :)?
>
>I can't think of a time we deployed oracle where no support wouldn't have
>been a show stopper for the people that owned the project.
>
>Good luck though. Have you tried installing X from pkgsrc? I've seen
>reports that works reasonably well.