Re: Reinstall OS completely without reinstalling Oracle
From: William Muriithi <william.muriithi_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:19:39 -0400
Message-ID: <CAE9rU+7oygmtKLO_hX3tJGmm3q5tKEE0P17Wi22Q7w774sBUHQ_at_mail.gmail.com>
On 22 October 2011 15:23, 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.
>
> We just found that the DL585G7 is only certified with RHEL5.5 or later.
>
> The SA team would rather install the OS from scratch than do an upgrade, and I understand the reasoning behind it.
I do not understand. Do you mind enlighten us? Personally yum update seem fine
>
> The oracle grid and db homes are in /var/oracle.
>
> 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.
>
If /var/oracle is a partition, they should be able to re-install without destoying it. However, if its a directory on the root partition, a fresh install will destroy everything
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:19:39 -0400
Message-ID: <CAE9rU+7oygmtKLO_hX3tJGmm3q5tKEE0P17Wi22Q7w774sBUHQ_at_mail.gmail.com>
On 22 October 2011 15:23, 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.
>
> We just found that the DL585G7 is only certified with RHEL5.5 or later.
>
> The SA team would rather install the OS from scratch than do an upgrade, and I understand the reasoning behind it.
I do not understand. Do you mind enlighten us? Personally yum update seem fine
>
> The oracle grid and db homes are in /var/oracle.
>
> 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.
>
If /var/oracle is a partition, they should be able to re-install without destoying it. However, if its a directory on the root partition, a fresh install will destroy everything
type mount and see if /var/oracle is a separate partition
> Thanks,
>
> Jed
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William
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