Re- reading the compat_linux man page it looks as if the program is looked for under the 
/emul/linux directory first and then it goes back and looks in the native NetBSD tree. That
makes sense.

I think my problem is actually related the fact that it can't find it's output destination. In
the error message it says:

An operating system error occurred while trying to spawn 'cat
/data1/oracle_805/orainst/README.FIRST | \grep \.' while redirecting
output to '?^]He no^'. (No such file or directory.) Would you like
to retry the operation, ignore the error, or allow the error to be
processed by the Installer?

Notice that the 3rd line says that it cannot redirect to:
'^H]He no^'

This changes occasionally with each run so obviously a pointer
to the wrong place.

Now I have the 8.0.5 release and I see that Oracle has the 8.0.5.1 release
ready now. The 8.0.5.1 release says it has to have glibc v2.0.7 or greater.
The FreeBSD site libraries that are referenced seem to only have libc.so.6.

Does anyone have a linux box that they can mail me a set a libraries from ?
Looks like libc.so.*, ld-linux.so.*, libm.so.*, libdl.so.*, libdb.so.* are key.

Thanks

Scott...

-----Original Message-----
From:	Chris Jones [SMTP:cjones@rupert.honors.montana.edu]
Sent:	Wednesday, July 21, 1999 5:56 PM
To:	Scott.Burns@Netcontech.Com
Cc:	'netbsd-help@netbsd.org'
Subject:	Re: Oracle for Linux install on NetBSD/i386 V1.4

My guess is that touch is located in a different directory under linux
than it is under NetBSD.  If that's the case, you may be able to make
a soft link under /emul/linux to point to the right place.

Chris

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