Installing Oracle 10.2.0.1 on CentOS 5.0 (x86_64)

During OS install both GNOME and KDE desktops were selected
as well as all components of all available groups except
"Virtualisation","Clustering","Cluster Storage"
KDE Session has been selected for system login.
Firewall and SELINUX have been disabled.


Hard disk partitions layout before installing Oracle.

CentOS 5.0 preinstall configuration.

File /etc/redhat-release has been edited to contain:-
redhat-4
to avoid installer's exit at startup.
Following lines added to the /etc/security/limits.conf file:-

*               soft    nproc   2047
*               hard    nproc   16384
*               soft    nofile  1024
*               hard    nofile  65536
 

Following line added to the /etc/pam.d/login file:-

session    required     /lib/security/pam_limits.so
 

1. Check for required rpms to be installed.





2. Install rpms , which have not been attached to system during CentOS 5.0 installation, from DVD.





3.Tune /etc/sysctl.conf





Then run:-


# /sbin/sysctl -p





5. Run as root following script:-

groupadd oinstall
groupadd dba
groupadd oper
useradd -g oinstall -G dba oracle
passwd oracle
mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1
chown -R oracle.oinstall /u01
mkdir -p /u02/oradata
chown -R oracle.oinstall /u02
 

6. Configure oracle's .bash_profile.
Actually, Oracle recommends export only ORACLE_BASE and ORACLE_SID,
what makes installer able to generate ORACLE_HOME by itself
But,anyway you will have modify .bash_profile after installation.
Line: ulimit -u 16384 -n 65536 has not been included into .bash_profile
due to testing environment





7.Copy archive to disk and extract it:-

# xhost +
# su - oracle
#./runInstaller
  

Installation screenshots:-









































Login to EM console:-

Marvell Yukon Driver (SK-9E22) for Solaris (x64) 8.19.1.3
installation procedure in Solaris Express (SNV 59)

At mean time many people are experiencing problems with installing Solaris Express
on PC with boards based on Marvell Yukon Gigabit PCI-X Ethernet adapter.
Version for download from :

http://www.syskonnect.de

may be installed but actually doesn’t work. Workaround for this issue follows bellow


Run to find out vendor-id and device-id :

# prtconf –pv 
   device-id : 4364
   vendor-id:  11ab
 

on your board


Modify script ./SKGEsolx/installation/postinstallation :-
Edit add_drv parameters list and put yours "pci11ab,4364" on the list.
Run:

# pkgadd -d . SKGEsolx 
 

It will exit and report:
that original checksum of postinstallation script is XXXXX and differs from actual YYYYY.
Then edit ./SKGEsolx/pkgmap and put in postinstallation line instead of XXXXX value YYYYY.
Run again:-

#  pkgadd -d . SKGEsolx 
 

Script should complete OK and report , that skge0 was plumbed and brought up.





Proceed as was advised by John Brewer :-
Run as root:-

# sys-unconfig
 

This program will unconfigure your system. It will cause it
to revert to a "blank" system - it will not have a name or know
about other systems or networks.
This program will also halt the system.
Do you want to continue (y/n) ? y
Then the system will shutdown and when you reboot,
it asks all new server questions out of the box:


What your server name is ?
Are you on the network ?
Ask for DHCP or IP ?
What is your netmask ?
Do you have a defaultrouter ?
Root passwd?
Which interface ? ( skge0 will be there, it in the kernel now and have to be selected)


Finally it run the kdmconfig and tries to configure your X-display adapter and monitor size,mouse ps/2 USB or serial


When system reboots interface skge0 will be really up and running
Interface skge0 has been assigned new IP-address: 192.168.0.59

Snoop -P -d skge0 statistics when pinging SNV 59 (64 bit) from remote Windows box

Would it be enough ?