Installing Oracle 11g on Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.

1. Open a terminal window. Login as the root user.

2. Create the following operating system groups: oinstall, dba, oper and asadmin
if using ASM

# /usr/sbin/groupadd oinstall
# /usr/sbin/groupadd dba
# /usr/sbin/groupadd oper
# /usr/sbin/groupadd asadmin
3. Create the operating system user oracle

# /usr/sbin/useradd -g oinstall -G dba,oper -d /home/oracle oracle

4. Enter the following command to set the password of the oracle user:

# passwd oracle
5. With an editor of your choice, edit /home/oracle/.bash_profile to include the
following entries:

umask 022

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib

ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle
ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/10.1.0/db_1
ORACLE_SID=orcl

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/jdk/jre/lib/i386:
$ORACLE_HOME/jdk/jre/lib/i386/server:
$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib:$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH

export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH

export ORACLE_BASE ORACLE_HOME ORACLE_SID

6. Create the directory for the software installation and assign ownership to
oracle:oinstall.

# mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle

7. Assign the ownership of the directory created above to Oracle and

change the permissiom
# chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01/app
# chmod -R 775 /u01/app
8. Edit the /etc/sysctl.conf file and add lines similar to the following:

kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128

kernel.shmall = 2097152
kernel.shmmax = 2147483648
kernel.shmmni = 4096
fs.file-max = 65536
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000
net.core.rmem_default = 4194304
net.core.rmem_max = 4194304
net.core.wmem_default = 262144
net.core.wmem_max = 262144

9. Issue the following command to set the kernel parameters: /sbin/sysctl –p

$ export DISPLAY=hostname:0.0

Either use the hostname or the ipaddress of the machine where the
installer will be displayed.
10. Go to the directory where you have your Oracle installation file and
execute this command
$ ./runInstaller.sh
11. The Oracle Universal installer startup and guides you through the
Installation process.
12. After complete installation, you need to execute the following scripts as
user root

# sh $ORACLE_BASE/oraInventory/orainstRoot.sh
# sh $ORACLE_HOME/root.sh