How to Install and Configure Oracle on Linux

Change to your staging directory (cd /home/oracle/orainst/orainst).

Start the installer (./orainst /c).

Select Custom Install.

Press enter twice to bypass the README files.

Select Create/Upgrade Database objects.

Select Create Database Objects.

Press return to acknowledge the environment variables ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_BASE.

Press return to acknowledge the locations for the log files.

Press return to acknowledge the environment variable ORACLE_SID.

Select Oracle8 Enterprise (RDBMS), tab to INSTALL and press return.

Select Create Product DB Objects (see Figure 19).

Select Filesystem-based Database (see Figure 20).

Select Yes to distribute control files over three mount points (see Figure 21).

Enter the three mount points of /u01, /u02 and /u03 (see Figure 22).

Select the appropriate character set.

Select the appropriate national character set.

Enter the password you want to use for the SYSTEM account. You will be asked to enter it a second time to confirm the password.

Enter the password you want to use for the SYS account. You will be asked to confirm that too.

If you want an internal password for dba and operator, tab to Yes at this prompt. If you don't want an internal password tab to No.

Enter and confirm the password you want to use for the TNS listener.

Click on No to configure the MTS Listener (see Figure 23).

Press return to acknowledge the defaults for the location of the control files.

Press return twice if you wish to accept the defaults for the paths to your data files and their sizes. If you have not done any database sizing and thereby determined you need more space, the default sizes should be appropriate (see Figure 24). You can add space to any data file at a later time, if necessary.

Select Yes to accept the default file names and sizes (see Figure 25).