Oracle Database 10g (10.1.0.2) Installation On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL4)
Oracle Database 10g (10.1.0.2) Installation On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL4)
Alternative installations may require more packages to be loaded, in addition to the ones listed below. Download Software Unpack Files Hosts File Set Kernel Parameters Setup Installation Post Installation
Download Software
Download the following software. Oracle Database 10g (10.1.0.2) Software
Unpack Files
First unzip the files. gunzip ship.db.cpio.gz Next unpack the contents of the files. cpio -idmv < ship.db.cpio You should now have a single directory (Disk1) containing installation files.
Hosts File
The "/etc/hosts" file must contain a fully qualified name for the server. <IP-address> <fully-qualified-machine-name> <machine-name>
Add the following line to the "/etc/pam.d/login" file, if it does not already exist. session required pam_limits.so
Note by Kent Anderson: In the event that pam_limits.so cannot set privilidged limit settings see Bug 115442. Disable secure linux by editing the "/etc/selinux/config" file, making sure the SELINUX flag is set as follows. SELINUX=disabled Alternatively, this alteration can be done using the GUI tool (Applications > System Settings > Security Level). Click on the SELinux tab and disable the feature.
Setup
Install the following packages. # From RedHat AS4 Disk 2 cd /media/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS rpm -Uvh setarch-1* rpm -Uvh compat-libstdc++-33-3* # From RedHat AS4 Disk 3 cd /media/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS rpm -Uvh openmotif-2* rpm -Uvh compat-db-4* # From RedHat AS4 Disk 4 cd /media/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS rpm -Uvh compat-gcc-32-3* rpm -Uvh compat-gcc-32-c++-3* Create the new groups and users. groupadd oinstall groupadd dba groupadd oper useradd -g oinstall -G dba oracle passwd oracle Create the directories in which the Oracle software will be installed. mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.0/db_1 chown -R oracle.oinstall /u01 Login as root and issue the following command. xhost +<machine-name> Edit the "/etc/redhat-release" file replacing the current release information (Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant)) with the following. redhat-3 Login as the oracle user and add the following lines at the end of the ".bash_profile" file. # 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=TSH1; 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
Installation
Log into the oracle user. If you are using X emulation then set the DISPLAY environmental variable. DISPLAY=<machine-name>:0.0; export DISPLAY Start the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) by issuing the following command in the Disk1 directory. ./runInstaller During the installation enter the appropriate ORACLE_HOME and name then continue with a "software only" installation.
Post Installation
Create a new instance using the DBCA. If you get the "ORA-27125: unable to create shared memory segment" error when using the DBCA issue the following commands as the oracle user then try again. cd $ORACLE_HOME/bin mv oracle oracle.bin cat >oracle <<"EOF" #!/bin/bash export DISABLE_HUGETLBFS=1 exec $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle.bin $@
EOF chmod +x oracle I didn't encounter the previous issue myself, so hopefully you won't either. Edit the "/etc/redhat-release" file restoring the original release information. Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant) Finally edit the "/etc/oratab" file setting the restart flag for each instance to 'Y'. TSH1:/u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.0/db_1:Y For more information see: Oracle Database Installation Guide 10g Release 1 (10.1) for UNIX Systems Installing Oracle Database 10g on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 and 2.1, Red Hat 9, and on Red Hat Fedora Core 1 Oracle on Linux Automating Database Startup and Shutdown on Linux