For installing Oracle 10.1.0.3 on FC3:
1. Setup kernel parameters:
insert in file /etc/sysctl.conf
kernel.shmmax = <half of memory in bytes> kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128 fs.file-max = 65536 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000
Execute: /sbin/sysctl -p
insert in file /etc/security/limits.conf
* soft nproc 2047 * hard nproc 16384 * soft nofile 1024 * hard nofile 65536
insert in file /etc/pam.d/login before line session required pam_selinux.so multiple open
session required pam_limits.so
2. Create the new groups and users:
groupadd oinstall groupadd dba
useradd -g oinstall -G dba oracle passwd oracle
3. Create the directories in which the Oracle software will be installed:
mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.0 chown -R oracle.oinstall /u01
4. Edit the /etc/redhat-release file replacing the current release information with the following:
redhat-3
5. Login as the oracle user and add the following lines at the end of the .bash_profile file: # Oracle Settings export TMP=/tmp export TMPDIR=$TMP export ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle export ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/10.1.0 export ORACLE_SID=sid1 export ORACLE_TERM=xterm export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:/usr/sbin:$PATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export CLASSPATH=$ORACLE_HOME/jdbc/lib/ojdbc14.jar: $ORACLE_HOME/jdbc/lib/orai18n.jar
6. Installation
Log into the oracle user. Start the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) by issuing the following command in the Disk1 directory: ./runInstaller
All sould work.