Installation of Oracle 10g on Solaris 10 x86

Following are the steps to install Oracle 10 g on Solaris 10 x 86

• Preinstallation Tasks
• Download and Install
• Post Installation Task

Pre-Installation Task:

1. First we need to create a oracle user which belongs to dba group

# su –

# groupadd dba

# useradd -G dba -m -d /export/home/oracle -s /usr/bin/ksh oracle

# passwd oracle

2. Setup system parameters for which we need to edit /etc/system file

# vi /etc/system

set noexec_stack=1

save and quit

Execute the following commands to configure system settings for oracle

# proajadd -U oracle -K “project.max-shm-memory=(priv,4g,deny)” user.oracle

#projmod -sK “project.max-sem-nsemd=(priv,256,deny)” user.oracle

#projmod -sK “project.max-sem-ids=(priv,100,deny)” user.oracle

#projmod -sK “project.max-shm-ids=(priv,100,deny)” user.oracle

Set the Display

# DISPLAY=localhost:0.0

# export $DISPLAY

# xhost +

3. Create a base directory for oracle

# mkdir oracle

# chown oracle:dba oracle

Download and install:

Look for the following packages as they are required for installation of ORACLE

# pkginfo -i SUNWlibs SUNWtoo SUNWilcs SUNWxwfnt SUNWxwplt SUNWmfrun SUNWxwplr SUNWgcc SUNWbtool SUNWilof SUNWhea SUNWlibm SUNWsprot SUNWuiu8

If the following packages are not install , you need to install it.

Download the Oracle software from Oracle website.

Extract the files

# unzip 10202_database_solx86.zip

Start the installation process. login as oracle user.

#cd database

#./runInstaller

 Post Installation Task

Execute the scripts as root

# /opt/oracle/oraInventory/orainstroot.sh

#/opt/oracle/102/root.sh