Re: Reinstall OS completely without reinstalling Oracle

here are my notes for OS upgrade on rac

http://karlarao.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/single-instance-and-rac-kernel-os-upgrade/

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On Oct 22, 2011, at 2:23 PM, "Walker, Jed S" <Jed_Walker_at_cable.comcast.com> wrote:

> So, here is the problem.
> We were given HP DL585G7s with RHEL5.3 installed. I installed 11.2.0.3.0 RAC.
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> We just found that the DL585G7 is only certified with RHEL5.5 or later.
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> The SA team would rather install the OS from scratch than do an upgrade, and I understand the reasoning behind it.
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> The oracle grid and db homes are in /var/oracle.
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> Does anyone know if it is possible to reinstall the OS from scratch without touching /var/oracle so we don't have to reinstall Oracle? I'm thinking /etc/oratab can be save/restored or recreated, but I think the big problem would be that init scripts and so forth would be removed by the fresh install.
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> Thanks,
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> Jed
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