Hi, Some time back someof you asked me to send the cook book for loading 9iAS on Redhat 7.1 ,so this is it Plz be carefull while using the said method though I use this for Prod server setup but still take care.Sorry for the delay you knw this CTO's.I would recommend you folks to read the install doc at the first cd of the pack also. RAM REQUIREMENT =============== The lowest I did it was for 256 MB RAM Swap twice RAM Redhat 7.1 ============= /boot =>23M / =>2048(This can go down) /usr =>2048(This can go down) /var =>1024 Choose graphics manipulation and KDE. I guess rest u guys know so I am jumping to 9iAS installation. 9iAS Release 1 =============== login as root cat sem (from /proc/sys/kernel) put (If your values are lower than those below) $echo 500 64000 1000 32768 >sem alternatively you can make this changes permanent by the following add this line to your /etc/sysctl.conf kernel.sem=500 64000 1000 32768 <=This line needs to be added if you shmmax and shmmni values are less than 1073741824 and 4096 add kernel.shmmax=1073741824 kernel.shmmni=4096 In order to effect this change immediately from root $sysctl -p check if your host file is ok.Its in /etc Create User and Group ===================== $groupadd dba $groupadd oinstall $useradd -g oinstall -G dba oraias $passwd oraias $chown -R oraias.oinstall /<u r ias filesystem> $mkdir /var/opt/oraias $chown oraias.dba /var/opt/oraias $chmod 755 /var/opt/oraias log in as oraias user then $cp .bash_profile .bash_profile.backup $vi .bash_profile then add the following entries ORACLE_OWNER=oraias;export ORACLE_OWNER ORACLE_HOME=<home_path><for me it is "/oraias/oracle/product/1.0.2">;export ORACLE_SID=<sid name>(I dont knw why this is reqd I tried without it installation failed). PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin :/usr/bin :/usr/local/bin :/usr/X11R6/bin :/oraias/oracle/product/1.0.2/6iserver/vbroker/bin :/oraias/oracle/product/1.0.2/6iserver/discwb4/bin:.;export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH= :/oraias/oracle/product/1.0.2/6iserver/lib :/oraias/oracle/product/1.0.2/Apache/jdk/jre/lib/i386/native_threads :/usr/X11R6/lib :$ORACLE_HOME/lib:.;export LD_LIBRARY_PATH save and exit The other utils you would require ================================== you would require 1)java (jdk) available from www.blackdown.org I use this one jdk118-v3-glibc-2.1.3.tar.bz2 Once you have got this , login as root copy it to /usr/local then $bzip2 -dc jdk118-v3-glibc-2.1.3.tar.bz2 |tar xf - - C /usr/local then create a link $ln -s /usr/local/jdj118_v3 /usr/local/java then come out of root login as oraias startup the Xserver $startx open two term windows get ready with the six cd's of the pack from any one term window login as root then $mount /mnt/cdrom from the second term window $bash /mnt/cdrom/runInstaller now dont start cursing me it does take some time. After a while OUI starts Enter oinstall for group (remember Portal is not supported in Linux) Error ====== While linking you will get ins_plsql.mk file error. Go to $cd $ORACLE_HOME/bin $vi genclntsh remove "-Zdefs" make it "<space>" save and exit $bash genclntsh come back to OUI hit "Retry" db cache may fail ,This you can configure later.The program may become irresponsive for somtime. Configuring iAS =============== $cd $ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Apache/conf $vi +228 httpd.conf hash that line(libexec/mod_rewrite.so) hash line 232 (libexec/mod_suth_dbm_so) $cp libXm.so.2.1 to /usr/local/X11R6 from $ORACLE_HOME/6iserver/lib/stubs $close all iAS applications $relink all login as root (Here you might require openmotif 2.30,This is readily avilable) copy this to /tmp unzip it it will create a "usr" dir then $cp -r /tmp/usr / it will ask for confirmation for one file overwrite enter "Y" For Configuring appreance of the applet ,you can modify $ORACLE_HOME/forms60/server/formsweb.cfg Hope,I could be of some help.This process hjelped me install and run 4 servers all in production in my place. Thanks Deep ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------