Coming soon: Installing Oracle9i RAC on Red Hat Advanced 2.1 (this article will also cover OCFS and FireWire Drives)
Installing Oracle 9i on RedHat Linux 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 9, Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1, and on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 3 (RHEL AS 3)
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Here is a summary (HOWTO) of how I installed: Oracle 9iR2 (9.2.0) Database on Red Hat Advanced Server 3 (kernel 2.4.21-4.EL, glibc 2.3.2-95.3) Oracle 9iR2 (9.2.0) Database on Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1 (kernel 2.4.9-e.3, glibc 2.2.4-26) Oracle 9iR2 (9.2.0) Database on Red Hat 9 (kernel kernel-2.4.20-6, glibc 2.3.2-5) Oracle 9iR2 (9.2.0) Database on Red Hat 8.0 (kernel 2.4.18-18.8.0, glibc 2.2.93-5) Oracle 9iR2 (9.2.0) Database on Red Hat 7.3 (kernel 2.4.18-3, glibc 2.2.5-34) Oracle 9iR1 (9.0.1) Database on Red Hat 7.3 (kernel 2.4.18-3, glibc 2.2.5-34) Oracle 9iR1 (9.0.1) Database on Red Hat 7.2 (kernel 2.4.7-10, glibc 2.2.4-13) Oracle 9iR1 (9.0.1) Database on Red Hat 7.1 (kernel 2.4.2-2, glibc 2.2.2-10)
Validation/Certification: Release 2 of Oracle 9i Database and Application Server, and Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.7 have been certified on Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1, see " Oracle and Red Hat Collaborate to Develop Enhanced Enterprise Capabilities for Red Hat Linux Advanced Server." Red Hat 7.1 has been validated for Oracle9i Database and for Oracle9i Application Server, see Red Hat Announces Validation of Red Hat Linux For Oracle. See also Oracle Products on Red Hat Linux.
Errors and Problems: Some of the Oracle errors and problems covered here were only experienced in connection with 9i (9.0.1) and some only with 9iR2 (9.2.0). But since I cannot say for sure that a 9i (9.0.1) installation error will never show up during 9iR2 (9.2.0) installation, I simply kept all errors and problems listed together, see Oracle Installation Errors and Oracle Installation Problems, Important Tips and Hints.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 3 (RHEL AS 3) In order to install an Oracle9iR2 database on RH AS 3, the "Oracle9iR2 Patch Set 3 9.2.0.4.0" patchset and some other patches must be applied. Some errors can only be fixed by applying the 9.2.0.4 patchset. For more information, see Running Oracle Installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 3.
Red Hat 9: Red Hat 9 includes now the the Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL) which is an improved implementation of POSIX threads for Linux. But using NPTL will cause several problems for Oracle applications. Note that Oracle9i has not been certified on Red Hat 9! So to fix this problem, you can set the environment variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL to 2.4.1, which means that the old "Linuxthreads with floating stacks" implementation will be used. Otherwise the Oracle installer runInstaller will hang, the Database Configuration Assistant dbca won''''t start etc.; see Oracle Installation Errors for more information. To see where this environment variable can be set, see Set Oracle Environments. For more information on LD_ASSUME_KERNEL, see Red Hat Linux 9 Release Notes. NOTE: Before you install Oracle9iR2, make sure that you first read the information about the error message "Error in invoking target install of make file /opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/network/lib/ins_oemagent.mk" in the Oracle Installation Errors section!
Red Hat 8.0: The only problem I experienced with Oracle 9iR2 (9.2.0) on Red Hat 8.0 was: "Error in invoking target install of makefile /opt/oracle/product/9.2.0/ctx/lib/ins_ctx.mk" But this does not necessarily mean that you won''''t see other problems described here. See Oracle Installation Errors for more information.
This article covers the following subjects and steps:
* Documentations * Downloading and Installing Red Hat Linux 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 9 * Unpacking Downloaded Oracle9i Installation Files and Burning Oracle9i CDs * Setting Swap Space * Setting Shared Memory * Checking /tmp Space * Sizing Oracle Disk Space * The "binutils" Issue * Checking Development Packages (RPMs) * JDK * Creating Oracle User Accounts * Creating Oracle Directories * Setting Oracle Environments * Starting runInstaller * Running Oracle Installation on RH 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 9, and on RH AS 2.1 * Running Oracle Installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 3 * Startup and Shutdown of the Oracle 9i Database * Oracle Installation Problems, Tips and Hints * Oracle Installation Errors
Documentations Oracle9i Database Documentation for Linux Tuning and Optimizing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server for Oracle9i Database Oracle9iR2 on Linux: Performance, Reliability and Manageability Enhancements on Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 An Overview of Red Hat Advanced Server V2.1 Reliability, Availability, Scalability, and Manageability (RASM) Features
Downloading and Installing Red Hat Linux 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 9 To download Red Hat Linux 7.x, 8.0, 9, check the links at http://www.puschitz.com/RedhatDownload.html You can find the installation guides for installing Red Hat Linux under Red Hat Linux Manuals.
NOTE: You cannot download Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1, you can only download the source code. If you want to get the binary CDs, you will have to buy it at http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/advanced/. But Red Hat is offering a Developer Edition of Advanced Server 2.1 at a very affordable price.
Unpacking Downloaded Oracle9i Installation Files and Burning Oracle9i CDs
Download Oracle9i for Linux from the following web site: http://otn.oracle.com/software/products/oracle9i/htdocs/linuxsoft.html
Uncompress and unpack downloaded files:
For Oracle9i (9.2.0):
One step procedure (uses less disk space and is faster):
Now you should have 3 directories containing installation files:
Disk1 Disk2 Disk3 I executed the following commands when I burned the 3 CDs: mkisofs -r Disk1 | cdrecord -v --eject dev=0,0,0 speed=15 - mkisofs -r Disk2 | cdrecord -v --eject dev=0,0,0 speed=15 - mkisofs -r Disk3 | cdrecord -v --eject dev=0,0,0 speed=15 - (You can get the dev numbers when you execute cdrecord -scanbus).
Setting Swap Space
In order to perform a typical Oracle 9i installation and to create a simple prototype database, Oracle says that you need a minimum of 512MB of RAM for the Oracle9i (9.0.1) Server, and the amount of disk space (swap space) should be equal to twice the amount of RAM or at least 400 MB, whichever is greater. I tried to test the limits on an older PC with 256 MB of RAM and with 600 MB of swap space. I was able to install Oracle 9i (9.0.1 & 9.2.0) and Oracle''''s default database without any problems. But when I used less swap space on this PC (256MB RAM), I was runnig out of memory. So I definitely recommend to use more RAM and/or more swap space as specified in the Oracle installation guide.
NOTE: If you do not have enough swap space or RAM during the Oracle installation, in particular during the database creation, your Oracle server (Linux) will temporarily become unresponsive to any events for several minutes.
For more information on correctly sizing the swap space for your database, see Sizing Swap Space.
To check the memory, run: grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo To check the swap space, run:&
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