Installation of oracle 9i on LINUX

[Garlands]

I was using oracle 9i on Windows but currently,I have formatted my system and installed Linux 4 now I want to use oracle on the Linux, I have tried to do but the disk does not detect the files on the disk and installation is not starting. Can you suggest me another procedure to install. I am waiting for your reply...... please.

[Reegan]

Installation of oracle 9i on LINUX:

The installation of oracle 9i is slightly different from windows. Actually the working of both operating system is different from each other. So In this case,you can't use the burned CD of oracle 9i which you are using earlier.It is unusable for Linux.

You have to download the Oracle for Linux from the official site of oracle because exe file of windows is not detected by Linux operating system.

[opaper]

Preparation of installation :

1. Download the files from the internet and save into your hard disk.The three files would be collected with the name of :
1. Linux9i_Disk1.cpio.gz (400Mb)
2. Linux9i_Disk2.cpio.gz (620 Mb)
3. Linux9i_Disk3.cpio.gz (80 Mb)
2. After download exapand these archive file somewhere where you have 2 GB space
3. Burn these file on three different disk for installation through disk.
4. Move to the root terminal and do the following :

# groupadd dba
# useradd oracle
# mkdir /usr/oracle
# mkdir /usr/oracle/9.0
# chown -R oracle:dba /usr/oracle

NOTE :You need 3 GB space or more where do you want to install.
5. In addition,create a file to record the database using

# touch /etc/oratab
# chown oracle:dba /etc/oratab

6. Make sure, Your X-Server is enabled on your system.Like another database,oracle database also want to use IPC to create shared memory.Enter the below statement :

# sysctl -w kernel.shmmax=100000000
# echo "kernel.shmmax = 100000000" >> /etc/sysctl.conf

Now your configuration for installation has been over and need to go ahead.

[MindSpace]

After downloading and collection of required things,Now you can continue the installation using following steps :

1. Login as a Oracle user that you have created earlier and perform this operations :

$ cd /var/bigspace
$ cd Disk1
$ export ORACLE_HOME=/usr/oracle/9.0
$ ./runInstaller

2. The GUI wizard will appear and follow the steps to complete the installation at end.
Now you have installed your database.

[Modifier]

Post Installation of oracle 9i on Linux:
Now after installation procedure, ready to create the database using some intellectual tools of oracle database. you need to issue some commands for that :

$ export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
  $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/lib
  $ dbca &

The database provided another network configuration tool

$ netca &
  $ cat "Techareanadb:/usr/oracle/9.0:Y >> /etc/oratab"
  $ cd $ORACLE_HOME/dbs
  $ cat initTechareanadb.ora |sed s/"#db_name = MY_DB_NAME"/"db_name = Techareanadb"/|sed s/#control_files/control_files/ > initTechareanadb.ora

And now follow the same procedure to create the database that you are using earlier on different platform.