32-bit x86 >4GB RAM

[Dan Lund]

Oracle supports RHEL, and SuSE, whatever their enterrprise edition is
called.  I don't ever change the kernel on those Oracle machines, they
are pretty much installed, hardened, and that's it.
I've tried installing Oracle10g on CentOS, but it gives odd errors
during installation.  (I worked with our DBAs on installing it)
I turned around, slapped RHEL3 on, and blam... worked.
I wouldn't doubt if there is some Copyrighted string it looks for in a
text file somewhere just to make sure it's running on an "official"
RHEL distribution.
Oh well, it's not my money.  It was a management decision to hold my
hand back from Shoehorning Oracle into something else. (the last
bastion of Red Hat in our shop)

--Dan

On 11/21/05, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> ----
> Oracle suggests 'Enterprise' form of Linux. I know that Red Hat is
> indifferent to processor/binary type but does have 'huge memory/multi-
> processor (more than 2)' support in 'Advanced Server'
>
> If you are going to roll your own kernel, you have lost support
> anyway...consider something like CentOS and then you can install any
> base.
>
> I imagine something similar exists with SuSE 'Enterprise' products but I
> am not SuSE knowledgable.