1) The link that you posted seems to go to the x86 version of SuSE and not the x86_64 version. I have not installed the x86 version on my dual opteron system, just the AMD64 version. I have an Oracle 9i database up and running on that platform along with the Application and Portal Servers. 2) According to the certify matrix on metalink for Oracle, SuSE SLES8 is certified for the 9i DB Server. http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/cert_matrices1.addtl_matrix Log into metalink.oracle.com (requires a user id and password which you get with an Oracle support contract) and select the "Certify & Availability" button. When checking with Oracle for certifications, you may need to reference United Linux, as that is how Oracle has it listed under most of it's certification pages. I found the guides on http://www.suse.com/en/business/certifications/certified_software/oracle/doc uments.html to be quite helpful in getting the installation done. -Alain. -----Original Message----- From: chu@tes-mail.jpl.nasa.gov [mailto:chu@tes-mail.jpl.nasa.gov] Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 5:18 PM To: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: [suse-amd64] SLES 8 install problems and Oracle Hello, I am trying to install the SLES 8 I bought from the SuSE store: http://www.digitalriver.com/dr/v2/ec_MAIN.Entry10?V1=476399&PN=1&SP=10023&xi d=40017&CID=0&DSP=&CUR=840&PGRP=0&CACHE_ID=0 onto a dual Opteron 244 system on a MSI K8D Master FT board. My first couple of attempts to install the software resulted in some strange behaviour. The system came up, but could not start up the network interfaces that are built into the board. I believe they are Broadcom TG3 interfaces. It also had trouble recognizing the Adaptec 39320D-R SCSI interface I plugged into its single slot. Try as I might, I could get the Yast to configure these properly. So I tried to rebuild the kernel in /usr/src/linux-2.4.19.SuSE. However, after I customized my configuration, I get an error when I run make dep. So I gave up on it for now. My server came with another SuSE version 8 Linux that was specific to AMD64. That version did correctly recognize the Broadcom Gig-E interfaces and the Adaptec SCSI HBA. But when I created a partition from the RAID that I had attached, I got strange corruption errors. It turns out that the RAID array was slightly bigger than 1TB in size, and writing to it clobbered the partition tables. So after I reformatted the RAID to break it up into two smaller LUNs, I was able to create a new file system and reliably write to it without wiping out the partition tables. So this brings up the question of how big a storage device can SLES 8 work with? On that other Linux distribution, the limit was around 4TBs. Through all the problems I had, I forgot that the original purpose of setting up this server was to install an Oracle 9i DB server. Well, it turns out that Oracle does not support AMD64 Linux at all. So I will need to install a 32 bit OS onto this Opteron server and force the CPU to run in 32 bit compatibility mode. It looks like the disks that came with the OS that I purchased has a distribution for x86 as well as x86-64. So the second question is: How do I get the install procedure on this disk to install the AMD-32 OS? I need to make the install procedure to force the Opteron into the 32 bit compatibility mode. Thanks for any help on this, eyc -- Check the List-Unsubscribe header to unsubscribe For additional commands, email: suse-amd64-help@suse.com