Oracle 10G 10.2.0 Database Installation Guide

Oracle 10G 10.2.0 Database Installation Guide

1. Preinstallation.

- check the physical configuration
- Physical MEM and Swap, swap=2*physical memory.

#grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 1917952 kB
#free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1917952 1893332 24620 0 7780 917124
-/+ buffers/cache: 968428 949524
Swap: 4096564 1642720 2453844

# grep SwapTotal /proc/meminfo
SwapTotal: 4096564 kB

- The system must be running the following kernel version (or a later version):
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0:
2.4.21-27.EL
# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.18-53.el5xen (brewbuilder@hs20-bc1-7.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070626 (Red Hat 4.1.2-14)) #1 SMP Wed Oct 10 16:48:44 EDT 2007

#uname -r
2.6.18-53.el5xen

[root@testsrv01 database]# hostname
testsrv01.sscsi.ca
# cat /etc/hosts | grep `eval hostname`

- Add new group and user.
# /usr/sbin/groupadd oinstall
add oracle inventory owner group.
# /usr/sbin/groupadd dba
add database owner group
#/usr/sbin/groupadd oper
add operation group
# /usr/sbin/useradd -g oinstall -G dba,oper oracle
add user oracle with certain groups.


HOw to apply patch/rpm

-- install some package/patches # rpm -Uvh . C

2. Run runInstaller from /oratemp/database - which is the software folder.

- Copy Oracle CD file to local directory: *.gz.
- gunzip *.gz. You get *.cpio file
- Run cat *.cpio | cpio -idmv