I'm not really familiar with linux ... will you not have to relink/recompile the executables once you upgrade from 5.3 to 5.5 ?? v/r, Gus On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 4:19 PM, William Muriithi < william.muriithi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 22 October 2011 15:23, Walker, Jed S <Jed_Walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > So, here is the problem. > > We were given HP DL585G7s with RHEL5.3 installed. I installed 11.2.0.3.0 > RAC. > > > > We just found that the DL585G7 is only certified with RHEL5.5 or later. > > > > The SA team would rather install the OS from scratch than do an upgrade, > and I understand the reasoning behind it. > I do not understand. Do you mind enlighten us? Personally yum update seem > fine > > > > The oracle grid and db homes are in /var/oracle. > > > > Does anyone know if it is possible to reinstall the OS from scratch > without touching /var/oracle so we don't have to reinstall Oracle? I'm > thinking /etc/oratab can be save/restored or recreated, but I think the big > problem would be that init scripts and so forth would be removed by the > fresh install. > > > If /var/oracle is a partition, they should be able to re-install > without destoying it. However, if its a directory on the root > partition, a fresh install will destroy everything > > type mount and see if /var/oracle is a separate partition > > Thanks, > > > > Jed > > > > > > -- > > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > > > > > > William > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l