Install Oracle 10g on Solaris
August 1, 2011 Leave a comment
1. Logon as a root user:
> su Password:
2. Create Oracle software owner’s home directory.
cd /u0 mkdir –p app/oracle
3. Create necessary groups and Oracle user.
groupadd oinstall groupadd dba useradd –s /bin/ksh –d /u0/app/oracle –g oinstall –G dba oracle
4 Change the owner of the app directory.
chown –R oracle:oinstall app
5 Reset oracle’s password.
passwd oracle
6 Add the following parameters to /etc/system
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax = 4294967295 set shmsys:shminfo_shmmin = 1 set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni = 100 set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg = 10 set semsys:seminfo_semmni = 100 set semsys:seminfo_semmns = 1024 set semsys:seminfo_semmsl = 256 set md:mirrored_root_flag=1 set noexec_user_stack=1
7. reboot server
8. Download the installation file from here. Extract and run ./runInstaller as a oracle user.
9. create .profile file in Oracle’s home directory ‘/u0/app/oracle ’ and write the following lines:
umask 022 stty istrip ORACLE_BASE=/u0/app/oracle ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/10.2.0/db_1 PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/local/bin:$ORACLE_BASE export ORACLE_BASE ORACLE_HOME PATH
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