The hardware is an old H50 and it is 32-bit. It can only be booted in 32-bit mode. Did anyone have success installing this 9i rel 2 on 32 bit hardware running AIX 5.2, 32 bit kernel? My install is failing at the linking phase. Thanks, Manjula On 4/28/05, Kirtikumar Deshpande <kedeshpande@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Oracle9i 64-bit can run in 32-bit mode. >=20 > Talk to your Sys Admins. > The AIX 5L server must be booted in 32-bit mode to run 64-bit Oracle9i on= it. >=20 > Or check it yourself... >=20 > On server running in 64-bit mode you get: >=20 > $ oslevel > 5.2.0.0 > $ ls -l /unix > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 21 Apr 22 2003 /unix -> /usr/li= b/boot/unix_64 >=20 > On server running in 32-bit mode you get: >=20 > $ oslevel > 5.2.0.0 > $ ls -l /unix > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 21 Oct 31 19:49 /unix -> /usr/li= b/boot/unix_mp >=20 > Cheers! >=20 > - Kirti >=20 >=20 > --- Manjula Krishnan <oradba.la@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > My processor is a 32 bit processor. From that metalink document it > > said that "Oracle 9.0.1/9.2.0 are 64-bit products and 64-bit hardware > > is absolutely required. " > > > > Were you able to get it to work on 32 bit hardware? > > > > Manjula > > >=20 > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l