Installing Oracle 10gr2 0n Solaris 10 x86

Installing Oracle 10g r2 on Intel Solaris x86

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Installing Solaris10 x86

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1. Select the default options

2. choose dhcp for hostname and ip assignment

3. changing hostname

o create file /etc/nodename and add the hostname example: balajilaptop

o restart the system (init 6)

4. Enabling root login via ssh

o Open /etc/ssh/sshd_config and make sure PermitRootLogin is set to yes.

o Restart the server by using command /lib/svc/method/sshd restart

5. Have at least 4gb as swap space for your oracle installation

o Checking swap space

§ swap –l

§ swap –s

o Increasing swap space

§ Create a temporary swap files on free partition

· mkfile 1048m /export/home/swapfile

· mkfile 1048m /export/home/swapfile1

· mkfile 1048m /export/home/swapfile2

· mkfile 1048m /export/home/swapfile3

§ Add the swap file to existing swap space

· swap -a /export/home/swapfile

· swap -a /export/home/swapfile1

· swap -a /export/home/swapfile2

· swap -a /export/home/swapfile3

o Using swap when the system is subsequently rebooted, add an entry for the swap file in the /etc/vfstab file

§ /export/data/swapfile - - swap - no -

§ /export/data/swapfile1 - - swap - no -

§ /export/data/swapfile2 - - swap - no -

§ /export/data/swapfile3 - - swap - no -

6. Copy the Oracle installer to Solaris machine using winscp or ftp

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8. Copy the Orace

I am yet to finish. Probably tomorrow