Install Oracle 10g in Solaris 10 x86 (Part 2)

In this Part, we will do pre-installation step. I will show you the steps very clearly so that it will be easier to follow. Must be careful that all the instruction here is done using root user, unless it mention clearly to do the instruction under other user. This Part is very important as a prerequisite task before doing the real installation.

PRE-INSTALLATION STEPS

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1. Check /etc/hosts file must be contain a fully qualified name for the server.

bash-3.00# vi /etc/hosts
#
# Internet host table
#
::1             localhost
127.0.0.1       localhost
192.168.56.132  solaris10.server.com     solaris10     unknown  # Added by DHCP
~
~
"/etc/hosts" 6 lines, 139 characters

2. Now we need 3 groups as an installation requirement: oinstall, dba, and oper.
Before we add these groups, we have to make sure that these groups don't exist.

bash-3.00# grep oinstall /etc/group
bash-3.00# grep dba /etc/group
bash-3.00# grep oper /etc/group

If this command doesn't return any value, it means these groups do not exist. Now we are ready to create these groups:

bash-3.00# /usr/sbin/groupadd oinstall
bash-3.00# /usr/sbin/groupadd dba
bash-3.00# /usr/sbin/groupadd oper

3. Now we need to create oracle user. First, we need to check whether oracle user does not exist.

bash-3.00# id -a oracle

If the user exist, it should return message like this:

uid=502(oracle) gid=502(oinstall) groups=502(oinstall),503(dba)

To create oracle user:

bash-3.00# useradd -g oinstall -G dba -d /export/home/oracle -m -s /bin/ksh oracle

Now, if we list file in /export/home/oracle folder, it will return like this:

bash-3.00# ls -la /export/home/oracle
total 12
drwxr-xr-x   2 oracle   oinstall     512 Apr 22 15:24 .
drwxr-xr-x   7 root     root         512 Apr 22 15:24 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 oracle   oinstall     144 Apr 22 15:24 .profile
-rw-r--r--   1 oracle   oinstall     136 Apr 22 15:24 local.cshrc
-rw-r--r--   1 oracle   oinstall     157 Apr 22 15:24 local.login
-rw-r--r--   1 oracle   oinstall     174 Apr 22 15:24 local.profile

4. Change the owner of the file.

bash-3.00# chown oracle:oinstall /export/home/oracle

5. Set oracle password (example: oracle)

bash-3.00# passwd -r files oracle
New Password: oracle
Re-enter new Password: oracle
passwd: password successfully changed for oracle

6. Use vi to edit /export/home/oracle/.profile file.

bash-3.00# vi /export/home/oracle/.profile

7. Add these following lines inside /export/home/oracle/.profile file.

# Oracle Settings
TMP=/tmp; export TMP
TMPDIR=$TMP; export TMPDIR
ORACLE_BASE=/export/home/oracle; export ORACLE_BASE
ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/10.2.0/db_1; export ORACLE_HOME
ORACLE_SID=ORASOL; export ORACLE_SID
PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH; export PATH

8. Create /export/home/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1 folder and change the owner for this folder

bash-3.00# mkdir -p /export/home/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1
bash-3.00# chown -R oracle:oinstall /export/home/oracle

9. (Optional) Edit Solaris kernel parameter in the /etc/system file:

set semsys:seminfo_semmni=100
set semsys:seminfo_semmns=1024
set semsys:seminfo_semmsl=256
set semsys:seminfo_semvmx=32767
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=4294967295
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=100

10. In Solaris 10, that kernel configuration (No. 8) is obsolete. The other way, you can do these following command. This one is to create oracle project with project.max-shm-memory = 4GB.

bash-3.00# projadd -U oracle -K "project.max-shm-memory=(priv,4GB,deny)" oracle

11. Because of this setting will be lost after reboot, so we need to set permanently.

bash-3.00# projmod -s -K "project.max-shm-memory=(priv,4GB,deny)" oracle

12. Verify our project and kernel setting:

bash-3.00# cat /etc/project
system:0::::
user.root:1::::
noproject:2::::
default:3::::
group.staff:10::::
oracle:100::oracle::project.max-shm-memory=(priv,4294967296,deny)

13. Add this line in the /etc/user_attr file:

oracle::::project=oracle

Continue to PART 3...

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