Re: Reinstall OS completely without reinstalling Oracle

  • From: Karl Arao <karlarao@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Jed_Walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <Jed_Walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:15:38 -0500

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/


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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
> 
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