I thought this was interesting, although I have not tired it yet. Curious if it might work on other flavors of Linux. I tried installing Oracle 9i on Red Hat 9 a while back. Got it to work, although it was a challenge.
How to install Oracle 10g on Gentoo Linux:
- Create a file /etc/redhat-release as root which contains:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 ()- Run the Oracle Universal Installer you downloaded and extracted from ship.db.cpio.gz. It will be fooled into thinking you're on a Red Hat system and will install without complaint. Be sure to follow the directions carefully!
- At the end of the install, it will ask you to run a root.sh script. You need to edit this script before you run it, find the two lines where it runs $LNS to create two symlinks in the /etc/rc.d/init.d directories (which you don't have on gentoo) and delete those lines. Then run the script.
- You'll have to write your own init.d scripts to start up the database, but they aren't too hard. If you want a copy of the scripts I wrote, let me know.
- Install Oracle Client, Cluster Ready Services, etc., the same way according to Oracle's directions.
Finally, you need a metric ton of RAM and disk to run this puppy. Count on needing at least 1GB of RAM and 5GB of disk, and that's before you make any databases."
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