I wonder what's the SAs reason for the install from scratch ? here are my notes for OS upgrade on rac http://karlarao.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/single-instance-and-rac-kernel-os-upgrade/ Sent from my iPhone On Oct 22, 2011, at 2:23 PM, "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. > > 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. > > Thanks, > > Jed > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l