Oracle 10g version (10.2.0.1.0) Installation Guide on RHEL-4(Kernel-2.6.69-EL

Oracle 10g version (10.2.0.1.0) Installation Guide on RHEL-4(Kernel-2.6.69-EL

 Hardware and software check:-

Note:-
This guide is assumed that all pre-requisite  of hardware and software is done.

Check the space availability and ensure that your SwapTotal should be twice or 1+1/2 of MemTotal Value.

[root@dhcppc3 ~]# cat /proc/meminfo | grep Total

1) Host Entry:-

Make an hostentry if it is not present.

2) Kernel Parameter Setting.

Cat /etc/sysctl.conf

Vi /etc/sysctl.conf

net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route = 0
kernel.sysrq = 0
kernel.core_uses_pid = 1
kernel.shmmax = 2147483648
kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128
fs.file-max = 65536
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000
net.core.rmem_default = 262144
net.core.wmem_default = 262144
net.core.rmem_max = 262144
net.core.wmem_max = 262144

[root@dhcppc3 ~]# sysctl -p

[root@dhcppc3 ~]#vi /etc/security/limits.conf

  oracle soft nproc 2047

 oracle hard nproc 16384

 oracle soft nofile 1024

 oracle hard nofile 65536

[root@dhcppc3 ~]# vi /etc/pam.d/login

session required /lib/security/pam_limits.so

3) Package Installation:-

[root@dhcppc3 oracle10g_rhel4_2.6.9-67.EL]# ls -ltr

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 3172244 Feb  2  2007 compat-gcc-32-3.2.3-47.3.i386.rpm

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 3863472 Feb  2  2007 compat-gcc-32-c++-3.2.3-47.3.i386.rpm

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  231823 Feb  2  2007 compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.3.i386.rpm

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   18745 Feb  2  2007 libaio-0.3.105-2.i386.rpm

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  118050 Oct 15  2007 sysstat-5.0.5-16.rhel4.i386.rpm

4) User and group Addition:-

[root@dhcppc3 ~]# groupdel dba

[root@dhcppc3 ~]# groupdel oinstall

[root@dhcppc3 ~]# useradd -g oinstall -G dba oracle

[root@dhcppc3 ~]# passwd oracle

Changing password for user oracle.

New UNIX password:

BAD PASSWORD: it is based on a dictionary word

Retype new UNIX password:

passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

5) Create the software Directory and Grant permission:-

6) Set the .bash_profile for Oracle User

NOTE:-

Make sure /tmp and $ORACLE_HOME  directory should contain at least 108MB,1.5GB  of spaces.

# Oracle Settings

TMP=/tmp; export TMP

TMPDIR=$TMP; export TMPDIR

ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle; export ORACLE_BASE

ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/10.1.0/db_1; export ORACLE_HOME

ORACLE_SID=orcl; export ORACLE_SID

ORACLE_TERM=xterm; export ORACLE_TERM

PATH=/usr/sbin:$PATH; export PATH

PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH; export PATH

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:/lib:/usr/lib; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

CLASSPATH=$ORACLE_HOME/JRE:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib:$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/jlib; export CLASSPATH

#LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1; export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL

if [ $USER = "oracle" ]; then

  if [ $SHELL = "/bin/ksh" ]; then

    ulimit -p 16384

    ulimit -n 65536

  else

    ulimit -u 16384 -n 65536

  fi

fi

7) Make Oracle 10g backward compatibility by entering the relase num to redhat-3 in /etc/redhat-release

8) Make SELINUX value as disable if it is enable.

9) Make below entry to allow all connection if your client and user are in the same machine.

[root@dhcppc3 oracle]# xhost +

access control disabled, clients can connect from any host

[root@dhcppc3 oracle]#

10).Execute the Installer:-

./runInstaller

11)Oracle Installation page will be pop-up.

The rest of the steps are GUI based. Hence I have not provided.