Better Instructions For Installing 8.0.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2

Here's some info from the Oracle Technology Network forum on Linux I wrote that might come in handy for some people in this newsgroup too.

Derek Pez (guest) wrote:

: I think because of all the fixes and hype going around on how to
: install this distribution of Oracle8 on Linux that a updated
: installation documentation should be available so that a new user
: such as myself doesn't have to read through and decifer hundreds
: of news group messages just to have it install correctly..
: Even if Oracle doesn't do it, someone that has
: successfully installed everything should modify or write
: some type of how-to guide on the entire installation
: procedure.  Anybody else feel the same way?

I agree. This is not the first Oracle product to be beta-released with lousy if not inaccurate doc. E.g. The liner that came with the CD didn't even have the correct website address (no www necessary).

So, in an effort to provide more good information, here are my installation instructions for Oracle 8.0.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2, based on a clean 'server' install and pulling off a CD-ROM (your results may vary). I did not recompile the kernel or anything. This may prove a problem later but for now appears to work fine.

• Login as root

# groupadd dba

# useradd -g dba -n oracle

# passwd oracle

• Specify a password for the 'oracle' account. I chose 'oracle' and ignored the warning
• The next few steps create a directory for the ORACLE_HOME. Mine will be /usr/oracle/product/805, owned by 'oracle' of the 'dba' group.

# mkdir /usr/oracle

# chown oracle /usr/oracle

# chgrp dba /usr/oracle

# su - oracle

# mkdir /usr/oracle/product

# mkdir /usr/oracle/product/805

# exit

• Now let's mount the CD-ROM and begin the installation

# mkdir /cdrom

# chmod 777 /cdrom

# mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom

(If you mount to /mnt/cdrom, like you usually would, the links in the HTML docs will not work. They are hardwired to /cdrom)

# su - oracle

# cd /cdrom/orainst

# ./install

    300M disk space?            y
    Oracle DBA group?          dba
    ORACLE_HOME?           /usr/oracle/product/805
    ORACLE_SID?                orcl
    create database?                y

# cd

• Edit (vi?) .bash_profile
• Add the following line . /usr/oracle/product/805/.env

# exit

# . /usr/oracle/product/805/.env

WARNING: The following root.sh will produce a "Please set..." message. Ignore it! It appears even if the environment variables ARE set!

# . /usr/oracle/product/805/orainst/root.sh

DONE! You can now verify successful installation, if you want:

# sqlplus system/manager

SQL> desc user_users

SQL> select username from user_users;

Hope this helps some of you out there. I'm working on install instructions for the OAS also. Received on Wed Dec 02 1998 - 15:41:50 CST