==================================================== Part I: Installing Linux for Oracle ==================================================== 1. Boot the server using the first CD.

* You may need to change your BIOS settings to allow booting from the CD. 2. The boot screen appears with the boot: prompt at the bottom of the screen. * Select Enter to continue with a graphical install on the console. (For other installation methods and options, refer to the Red Hat Installation Guide.) * The installer scans your hardware, briefly displays the Red Hat splash screen, and then begins a series of screen prompts. 3. Language Selection * Accept the default. 4. Keyboard Configuration * Accept the default. 5. Welcome Screen * Click on Next. 6. Disk Partitioning Setup * A thorough treatment of disk partitioning is beyond the scope of this guide, which assumes that you are familiar with disk partitioning methods. (WARNING: Improperly partitioning a disk is one of the surest and fastest ways to wipe out everything on your hard disk. If you are unsure how to proceed, stop and get help, or you will risk losing data!) This guide uses the following partitioning scheme, with ext3 for each filesystem: The 9GB disk on the first controller (/dev/sda) will hold all Linux and Oracle software and contains the following partitions: - 100MB /boot partition -1,500MB swap partitionSet this to at least twice the amount of RAM in the system but to no more than 2GB. (Thirty-two-bit systems do not support swap files larger than 2GB.) If you need more than 2GB of swap space, create multiple swap partitions. -7,150MB root partitionThis partition will be used for everything, including /usr, /tmp, /var, /opt, /home, and more. This approach is purely to simplify installation for the purposes of this guide. A more robust partitioning scheme would separate these directories onto separate filesystems. 7. Boot Loader Configuration * Accept the default. 8. Network Configuration

* It is usually best to configure database servers with a static IP address. To do so, click on Edit . * A pop-up window appears. Uncheck the Configure using DHCP box, and enter the IP Address and Netmask for the server. Be sure that Activate on boot is checked, and click on OK . * In the Hostname box, select manually and enter the hostname. * In the Miscellaneous Settings box, enter the remaining network settings. 9. Firewall Configuration * For the purposes of this walk-through, no firewall is configured. Select No firewall * Select Disabled on the "Enable SELinux" drop down list. * Click on Proceed when the "Warning - No Firewall" window appears. 10. Additional Language Support * Accept the default. 11. Time Zone Selection * Choose the time settings that are appropriate for your area. Setting the system clock to UTC is usually a good practice for servers. To do so, click on System clock uses UTC. 12. Set Root Password * Enter a password for root, and enter it again to confirm. 13. Package Installation Defaults * Select Customize software packages to be installed. 14. Package Group Selection * Select only the package sets shown here and leave all others unselected. * Desktop o X Window System o Gnome * Applications o Graphical Internet (optional) * Servers Select FTP Server. Select Legacy Network Server. * Click on Details. 1. Select rsh-server. 2. Select telnet-server. * Development o Development Tools * System o Administration Tools o System Tools + Add the package 'sysstat' by clicking on the Details link and selecting "sysstat - The sar an iostat system monitoring commands." from the Optional Packages list. * Click on Details. Select the following packages in addition to the default selected packages. # RAC instlation 1. Select ocfs-2-2.6.9-42.0.0.0.1EL (driver for UP kernel), or select ocfs-2-2.6.942.0.0.0.1ELsmp (driver for SMP kernel). 2. Select ocfs2-tools.

3. Select ocfs2console. 4. Select oracle oracleasm-2.6.9-42.0.0.0.1EL (driver for UP kernel) or select oracleasm2.6.9-42.0.0.0.1ELsmp (driver for SMP kernel). 5. Select sysstat. * Miscellaneous Select Printing Support. * Click on Next to proceed. 15. Installing Packages * Software will be copied to the hard disk and installed. Change disks as prompted. 16. Congratulations * Remove the installation media from the system, and click on Reboot . 17. The system automatically reboots and presents a new welcome screen. * Click on Next. 18. License Agreement * Read the license agreement. If you agree to the terms, select Yes, I agree to the License Agreement and click on Next. 19. Date and Time * Set the Date and Time. * If you want to use an NTP server (recommended), select Enable Network Time Protocol and enter the name of the NTP server. 20. Display * Accept the defaults or change as required. 21. Red Hat Login * Enter your Red Hat Network login and password or create a new one. 22. System User * Create an account for yourself. * Do not create an account for oracle at this time. Creating the oracle account is covered later in this section. 23. Additional CDs * Click on Next. 24. Finish Setup * Click on Next. 25. A graphical login screen appears. 26. Congratulations! Your RHEL4 software is now installed. # uname -r # cat /etc/issue

Required package versions (or later): * binutils-2.15.92.0.2-10.EL4 * compat-db-4.1.25-9 * control-center-2.8.0-12 * gcc-3.4.3-9.EL4 * gcc-c++-3.4.3-9.EL4 * glibc-2.3.4-2

* glibc-common-2.3.4-2 * gnome-libs-1.4.1.2.90-44.1 * libstdc++-3.4.3-9.EL4 * libstdc++-devel-3.4.3-9.EL4 * make-3.80-5 * pdksh-5.2.14-30 * sysstat-5.0.5-1 * xscreensaver-4.18-5.rhel4.2 * libaio-0.3.96 * openmotif21-2.1.30-11.RHEL4.2 (Required only to install Oracle demos. Installation of Oracle demos is not covered by this guide.) To see which versions of these packages are installed on your system, run the following command: rpm -q binutils compat-db control-center gcc gcc-c++ glibc glibc-common \ gnome-libs libstdc++ libstdc++-devel make pdksh sysstat xscreensaver libaio openmotif21 ==================================================== Part II: Configuring Linux for Oracle ==================================================== check the amount of RAM #grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo #grep SwapTotal /proc/meminfo # df -h to check the disk space Create the Oracle Groups and User Account 1. Open a terminal window. Login as the root user. 2. Create the following operating system groups: oinstall, dba, and, oper. /usr/sbin/groupadd oinstall /usr/sbin/groupadd dba /usr/sbin/groupadd oper 3. Create the operating system user oracle: /usr/sbin/useradd -g oinstall -G dba,oper -d /home/oracle oracle 4. Enter the following command to set the password of the oracle user: /usr/sbin/passwd oracle 5. With an editor of your choice, edit /home/oracle/.bash_profile to include the following entries: umask 022

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/10.2.0/db_1 ORACLE_SID=orcl $ORACLE_HOME/jdk/jre/lib/i386/server: $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib:$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH export ORACLE_BASE ORACLE_HOME ORACLE_SID 6. Create the directory for the software installation and assign ownership to oracle:oinstall. Issue the following commands as root: mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01/app chmod -R 775 /u01/app

Configuring the Linux Kernel Parameters 7. Open the /etc/sysctl.conf file in any text editor and add lines similar to the following: kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128 kernel.shmall = 2097152 kernel.shmmax = 2147483648 kernel.shmmni = 4096 fs.file-max = 65536 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000 net.core.rmem_default = 262144 net.core.rmem_max = 262144 net.core.wmem_default = 262144 net.core.wmem_max = 262144

8.

Issue the following command to set the kernel parameters:

/sbin/sysctl -p 9. Set Shell Limits for the oracle User Oracle recommends setting limits on the number of processes and open files each Linux account may use. To make these changes, cut and paste the following commands as root: cat >> /etc/security/limits.conf <<EOF oracle soft nproc 2047 oracle hard nproc 16384 oracle soft nofile 1024

oracle hard nofile 65536 EOF cat >> /etc/pam.d/login <<EOF session required /lib/security/pam_limits.so EOF For RHEL4, use the following: cat >> /etc/profile <<EOF if [ \$USER = "oracle" ]; then if [ \$SHELL = "/bin/ksh" ]; then ulimit -p 16384 ulimit -n 65536 else ulimit -u 16384 -n 65536 fi umask 022 fi EOF ==================================================== Part III: Installing Oracle ====================================================