After reviewing the requirements for installing Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) on Solaris 10, (see the previous post Part 1 of 3), let’s begin the installation.

After unzipping the 2 downloaded files, we have a database directory which contains all the needed files for the installation and the OUI (Oracle Universal Installer), the GUI we are going to use.

root@oracleserver:/oracle_sfw> ls -l
total 4588914
drwxr-xr-x   8 root     root         512 Nov 24 12:49 database
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     1342890396 Dec 10 10:07 solaris.x64_11gR2_database_1of2.zip
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     1005450726 Dec 10 10:10 solaris.x64_11gR2_database_2of2.zip
root@oracleserver:/oracle_sfw> ls -l database/runInstaller
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        6513 Nov 24 06:36 database/runInstaller
root@oracleserver:/oracle_sfw>

The OUI must be run by the oracle user, and as I am going to connect remotely to the server, for exporting the graphics I will use SSH with the -X option :

arno@opensolaris:~$ ssh -X oracle@oracleserver
Password:
Last login: Thu Dec 10 13:53:37 2009 from 10.164.3.101
Sun Microsystems Inc.   SunOS 5.10      Generic January 2005
Welcome to Sol10_Generic on baroja33
$ bash
oracle@oracleserver:~> cd /oracle_sfw/database/
oracle@oracleserver:/oracle_sfw/database> ./runInstaller
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...

Checking Temp space: must be greater than 180 MB.   Actual 7182 MB    Passed
Checking swap space: must be greater than 150 MB.   Actual 7375 MB    Passed
Checking monitor: must be configured to display at least 256 colors.    Actual 16777216    Passed
Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2009-12-11_05-11-31PM. Please wait …

oracle@oracleserver:~>

Next steps are to answer the questions of the OUI. Here are the screenshots of my installation :

1. Configure Security Updates
   Note : you can continue without entering any email…

   

2. Installation Option
3. System Class
4. Grid Options
5. Install Type
   
   
6. Prerequisite Checks
   In my case we can see that the prerequisite checks failed because of the maximum user processes. Strange because it wasn’t a requirement… We could change it but as the difference is only 11, I am going to select the “Ignore All” and continue with the installation process…
7. Summary
8. Install Product
   As before we have selected “Create and configure a database” during the 2nd step “Installation Option”, the Database Configuration Assistant (DCA) is launched
   
   
9. Finally we are told to execute some configuration scripts :
   So let’s do it, as root user :

   root@oracleserver:/> /opt/oracle/oraInventory/orainstRoot.sh
   Changing permissions of /opt/oracle/oraInventory.
   Adding read,write permissions for group.
   Removing read,write,execute permissions for world.
   
   Changing groupname of /opt/oracle/oraInventory to oinstall.
   The execution of the script is complete.
   root@oracleserver:/>
   root@oracleserver:/> /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/root.sh
   Running Oracle 11g root.sh script...
   
   The following environment variables are set as:
       ORACLE_OWNER= oracle
       ORACLE_HOME=  /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1
   
   Enter the full pathname of the local bin directory: [/usr/local/bin]:
   Creating /usr/local/bin directory...
      Copying dbhome to /usr/local/bin ...
      Copying oraenv to /usr/local/bin ...
      Copying coraenv to /usr/local/bin ...
   
   Creating /var/opt/oracle/oratab file...
   Entries will be added to the /var/opt/oracle/oratab file as needed by
   Database Configuration Assistant when a database is created
   Finished running generic part of root.sh script.
   Now product-specific root actions will be performed.
   Finished product-specific root actions.
   root@oracleserver:/>

10. Last step is to push the Close button

And nothing more to do!!
Maybe we should verify if the Oracle Database works correctly… so see you on the next post Part 3 of 3…

Arnaud