Well, there's the definitive answer! As I said, I'd never tried it. Thanks for the definitive answer, David! -Mark -- Mark J. Bobak Senior Database Administrator, System & Product Technologies ProQuest 789 E. Eisenhower, Parkway, P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor MI 48106-1346 +1.734.997.4059 or +1.800.521.0600 x 4059 mark.bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxx www.proquest.com www.csa.com ProQuest...Start here. -----Original Message----- From: David Ballester [mailto:ballester.david@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 10:42 AM To: Bobak, Mark Cc: 'rusucarmen@xxxxxxxxx'; Michael Elkin; Oracle-L Freelists Subject: RE: Centos el5 on IBM Thinkpad T61 - Oracle 9i (!!) install? El mar, 23-09-2008 a las 10:21 -0400, Bobak, Mark escribió: > Hi Carmen, > > > > Well, if you want Oracle to support it, then you can’t run 9i on > RHEL5. Since RHEL5 wasn’t released till long after 9i was > desupported, Oracle never tested this configuration. So, they’re > telling you do downgrade RHEL to RHEL4 to get to a stable, supported > configuration for Oracle 9i. Oracle9i binaries will never run on Centos5 ( RHEL 5/ OEL 5 and actual 2.6 kernels... ) 'cause the kernels that provide this distros have no more the code to support the old ( 2.4 ) kernel threading method ( supported on previous 2.6 with the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 ) D. ��i��0���zX���+��n��{�+i�^