Install Oracle 10g in Solaris 10 x86 (Part 1)

Currently, Oracle 10g is still one of the most database server used today. Many Oracle DBA certified has become very good pay in the IT industry. Normally in the real practise, Oracle database server is installed inside Solaris 10 for getting the most performance. In this article, I will explain how to install Oracle 10g in the Solaris 10 x86 (Intel processor). This installation is quiet complicated, so that you must follow step-by-step in this tutorial.

DOWNLOAD ORACLE 10g

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To download Oracle 10g, we can go to this website: http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/oracle10g/htdocs/10202solx86soft.html

We need to login first before download or if you haven't registered yet, please register first.

Then we click this file 10202_database_solx86.zip for download.

Suppose we put this file in the /Desktop folder. After downloaded, we will unzip this file to the /export/home/oracle_installer folder:

bash-3.00# mkdir /export/home/oracle_installer
bash-3.00# unzip /Desktop/10202_database_solx86.zip -d /export/home/oracle_installer/

After the unzip finished, it should created database folder inside /export/home/oracle_installer/

bash-3.00# ls -la /export/home/oracle_installer/
total 6
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         512 Apr 21 21:15 .
drwxr-xr-x   6 root     root         512 Apr 21 21:14 ..
drwxrwxr-x   6 root     root         512 Jul 25  2006 database

First of all, before we do all these things, we have to login as root user.

CHECK REQUIREMENT AND INSTALL PREREQUISITE PACKAGES

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1. Check minimal memory size should have at least 1 GB for better performance.

bash-3.00# /usr/sbin/prtconf | grep "Memory size"
Memory size: 1024 Megabytes

2. Check minimal swap file should have:
Swap file between 1024 MB and 2048 MB = 1.5 times the size of RAM
Swap file between 2049 MB and 8192 MB = Equal to the size of RAM
Swap file more than 8192 MB           = 0.75 times the size of RAM

bash-3.00# /usr/sbin/swap -s
total: 305348k bytes allocated + 61288k reserved = 366636k used, 2014240k available

3. Check minimal Disk Space in /tmp should have at least 400 MB

bash-3.00# df -h /tmp
Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
swap                   1.9G    80K   1.9G     1%    /tmp

4. Check current operating system information should give 5.10 i86pc (Solaris 10 x86)

bash-3.00# uname -a
SunOS unknown 5.10 Generic_137138-09 i86pc i386 i86pc

5. Check free disk space available on the system recommended have at least 3.7 GB.

Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0d0s0        7.7G   4.4G   3.2G    59%    /

6. Check the required packages are installed:

bash-3.00# pkginfo -i SUNWlibms SUNWtoo SUNWi1cs SUNWi15cs SUNWxwfnt SUNWxwplt SUNWmfrun SUNWxwplr SUNWxwdv SUNWgcc SUNWbtool SUNWi1of SUNWhea SUNWlibm SUNWsprot SUNWuiu8
system      SUNWbtool CCS tools bundled with SunOS
system      SUNWgcc   gcc - The GNU C compiler
system      SUNWhea   SunOS Header Files
system      SUNWi1of  ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) Optional Fonts
system      SUNWlibm  Math & Microtasking Library Headers & Lint Files (Usr)
system      SUNWlibms Math & Microtasking Libraries (Usr)
system      SUNWmfrun Motif RunTime Kit
system      SUNWsprot Solaris Bundled tools
system      SUNWtoo   Programming Tools
system      SUNWuiu8  Iconv modules for UTF-8 Locale
system      SUNWxwdv  X Windows System Window Drivers
system      SUNWxwfnt X Window System platform required fonts
system      SUNWxwplr X Window System platform software configuration
system      SUNWxwplt X Window System platform software
ERROR: information for "SUNWi1cs" was not found
ERROR: information for "SUNWi15cs" was not found

Don't worry if you see the SUNWi1cs and SUNWi15cs packages was not found.
IT IS NORMAL. These packages are available in Solaris 10 installer.

7. Install SUNWi1cs and SUNWi15cs packages

bash-3.00# pkgadd -d /cdrom/sol_10_1008_x86/Solaris_10/Product SUNWi1cs SUNWi15cs

Processing package instance <SUNWi1cs> from </cdrom/sol_10_1008_x86/Solaris_10/Product>

X11 ISO8859-1 Codeset Support(i386) 2.0,REV=2004.10.17.15.04
Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Using </> as the package base directory.
## Processing package information.
## Processing system information.
   8 package pathnames are already properly installed.
## Verifying package dependencies.
## Verifying disk space requirements.
## Checking for conflicts with packages already installed.
## Checking for setuid/setgid programs.

This package contains scripts which will be executed with super-user
permission during the process of installing this package.

Do you want to continue with the installation of <SUNWi1cs> [y,n,?] y

Installing X11 ISO8859-1 Codeset Support as <SUNWi1cs>


## Installing part 1 of 1.
232 blocks

Installation of <SUNWi1cs> was successful.

Processing package instance <SUNWi15cs> from </cdrom/sol_10_1008_x86/Solaris_10/Product>

X11 ISO8859-15 Codeset Support(i386) 2.0,REV=2004.10.17.15.04
Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Using </> as the package base directory.
## Processing package information.
## Processing system information.
   6 package pathnames are already properly installed.
## Verifying package dependencies.
## Verifying disk space requirements.
## Checking for conflicts with packages already installed.
## Checking for setuid/setgid programs.

This package contains scripts which will be executed with super-user
permission during the process of installing this package.

Do you want to continue with the installation of <SUNWi15cs> [y,n,?] y

Installing X11 ISO8859-15 Codeset Support as <SUNWi15cs>

## Installing part 1 of 1.
1460 blocks

Installation of <SUNWi15cs> was successful.

Continue to PART 2...

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