Dba Specialist Install Oracle 10G

Installing and Configuring Oracle Database 10g on the Linux
Platform
by Roger Schrag
Database Specialists, Inc.
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Introduction
This paper will walk you through the steps of installing Oracle Database 10g release 2 (Oracle version 10.2.0) ina
Linux environment. About 90% of the material presented here applies to other platforms as well. Everything you
read in this paper is hands on, roll-up-your-sleeves-and-get-busy material for Oracle users who want to get an
Oracle database up and running quickly without reading hundreds of pages of documentation and “readme” files.
These steps are meant to get you up and running as fast aspossible, while leveraging best practices in order to set
up a scalable, robust database environment that offers high performance. In order to keep the steps reasonably
simple this paper does not cover Real Application Clusters (RAC), nor does it cover Oracle Internet Directory
(OID), Automatic Storage Management (ASM), or Grid Control.
In this paper we will install the 10.2.0.2 release of OracleDatabase 10g. This is the base distribution of Oracle
Database 10g release 2 (10.2.0.1) with the 10.2.0.2 patch set applied on top. Be sure to check Oracle Support’s
Metalink at http://metalink.oracle.com to see if a newer patch set has been released since this paper was published.
You will need a valid Customer Service Identifier (CSI) number in order to access the Metalink website.
We ranour Oracle installations on Dell servers equipped with Intel Xeon and Pentium processors running Red Hat
Enterprise Linux ES release 4, update 2. Oracle Database 10g is supported on other processor architectures and
Linux distributions as well. Note that with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the ES and AS varieties are supported while
WS is not.
There are four phases to getting Oracle up and runningon your server:
1.
2.
3.
4.

Prepare the server
Install the Oracle software and latest patch set
Create a database
Complete the server configuration

We will walk through these phases one at a time, detailing all the steps involved. The end result will be a very
usable database that can be scaled up quite large, and an Oracle installation that follows industry-recognized bestpractices. Of course, every implementation is unique, and you will need to evaluate each step carefully against your
particular requirements. However, this paper will get you off to a very solid start.

Prepare the Server

These steps configure your database server so that it will be ready to accept the Oracle software and database. In
this section, we will make sure your server meets Oracle’sminimum requirements, create a Linux user and group to
“own” the software, and create some directories that will be used by the Oracle software and database. All of the
steps in this section are run as the root user.
1. Make sure that your hardware platform (processor architecture) is certified by Oracle Corporation for use
with Oracle Database 10g release 2, and that you have acquired the correctdistribution of Oracle software
for your hardware platform. As of May 2006, the supported hardware platforms for Oracle on Linux are as
follows:
Supported Hardware Platforms for Oracle Database 10g release 2
x86 (Intel and AMD processor chips that adhere to the x86 32-bit architecture)
x86-64 (AMD64/EM64T and Intel processor chips that adhere to the x86-64 architecture)
Itanium
IBM Power...