Hi folks,

I've just completed the most painful install of 8i ever. Took the best part of three days including upgrading JDk, downgrading binaries, patching and a great deal of foot stamping.

In case anyones interested it was 8.1.7 on Suse 7.3 personal. Why you may ask, well a Compaq may have "mobile" technology but it doesn't seem to handle the mobility of a sea container on a 1000 mile journey to well

Since my normal reaction is "It ain't broke, better fix it" the question is what's the most stable distro that can handle 9i and 10g separately ofcourse. Most stuff I've read seems to point to RH 9 but I've seen a lot of posts with people having trouble installing 9iR2. Any comments?

(BTW when did they rename 10g to 9.0.4?? bet the marketing dept are spewing!)

Davey, I've read your thread so I'm already biased to RH.