Oracle Database 11g Install Part 1

Oracle Database 11g R2 Linux Install
Part 2 available here..

Create the necessary users and groups with the following commands







# groupadd -g 1000 oinstall
# groupadd -g 1031 dba
# usermod -g oinstall -a -G dba oracle

# mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle
# mkdir /u01/app/oracle/oms
# mkdir /u01/app/oracle/agent
# chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01
# chmod -R 775 /u01/

unzip installation files
[oracle@main-emcc Downloads]$ unzip linux.x64_11gR2_database_1of2.zip
[oracle@main-emcc Downloads]$ unzip linux.x64_11gR2_database_2of2.zip


run the installer
[oracle@main-emcc database]$ ./runInstaller

Configure the hosts file
root@main-emcc admin]# vi /etc/hosts   and add servername eg main-emcc
e.g hosts file should look like the following

127.0.0.1   main-emcc localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6