1. At the boot screen, press the "Enter" key.
2 For testing the CD media screen we will skip. Press [TAB] key to pass SKIP button and [ENTER] key to continue.
3. On the “Welcome” screen click [NEXT]
5. Select the relevant keyboard setting, then click the "Next" button.
7. Click the "Manually partion Disc option" for disk partitioning warning dialog.
9.Need to set up Disc option here for BOOT , SWAP , TMP , ROOT by clicking NEW button opton.
10. By clicking NEW button , In Mount point select [/BOOT ] and assign 100 MB. Assigned values based on System configuration.
10. By clicking NEW button , In Mount point select [/TMP ] and assign 2000 MB. Assigned values based on System configuration.
11 .By clicking New button , In FILE SYSTEM TYPE select [SWAP ] and assign 2048 MB. Assigned values based on twice of RAM SIZE
12 Remaining all spaces assigned to ROOT and click next .
14. Accept boot loader setting by clicking next button
15 . Configure the network interface with the appropriate settings. This can be done automatically using DHCP, or manually.
16. Select No Firewall option and Disable SELinux
18. Select additional language support
19.Select the relevant city by clicking on the map. Click on the "Next" button to proceed.
20. Enter a root password for the server, then click the "Next" button to proceed.
21. To install required packages for Oracle installation select “Customize now” and click Next
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22.On the "About to Install" screen, click the "Next" button.
24 During the installation phase, enter the appropriate ISO images as requested.
26. Click the "Reboot" button to complete the installation.
28. Accept the license agreement and click the "Next" button.
31.Accept resolution color then press “Next”
32. It warns ignore it , click “Continue”
34. On the "Additional CDs" screen, click the "Next" button.
36. Login screen will appear Enter as root
38.Linux desktop screen appears
To Install Oracle 10g on OEL -4
Checking minimum hardware requirements
At least, system should meet the following requirements: 1GB RAM
Requirement for swap space in Oracle installation
AVAILABLE RAM SWAP SPACE REQUIRED
Between 1 GB and 2 GB 1.5 times the size of RAM Between 2 GB and 8 GB Equal to the size of RAM More than 8 GB .75 times the size of RAM 500MB free space in /tmp directory.
1.5-3.5 GB free space for Oracle Software.
1.5GB free space if new Oracle Database is created.
Need to get hardware information of our system. To check the size of RAM, Swap space and tmp directory, we run these commands:
To check the size of physical memory # grep MemTotal/proc/meminfo
To check the space n temp directory # df –h /tmp
To check the size of swap space, # grep SwapTotal /proc/meminfo
