I. Hardware requirements
1. Memory & swap
Minimum: 1 GB of RAM
Recommended: 2 GB of RAM or more
Check memory # grep MemTotal/proc/meminfo # grep SwapTotal/proc/meminfo
2. Hard Disk
Since CentOS is installed almost 4 ~ 5 GB, plus Oracle and so on, so please prepare at least 10 Gb hard disk space.
Check disk status # df-h
Ii. Software
System Platform: CentOS 6.3 (x32)
CentOS-6.3-i386-bin-DVD1.iso
Oracle version: Oracle 10g R2
10201_database_linux32.zip
Iii. System Installation notes
During system installation, you must install the desktop mode. Otherwise, oracle cannot be installed. In addition, do not enable SELinux. oracle does not recommend SELinux, and CentOS Firewall should be temporarily disabled to reduce installation troubles. To prevent garbled characters during Oracle Installation, we recommend that you use English as the system language to install Oracle.
The system commands described in this article are marked as "#", which indicates the root permission, and "$" indicates the oracle permission.
4. system preparation before Oracle Installation
First, log in with the root account for some pre-set jobs.
1. Disable firewall and SELinux
# Setup
# Vi/etc/selinux/config
Modify SELINUX = disabled and restart.
If you do not want to restart the system, run the setenforce 0 command.
2. Install the dependency package
The installation package required by the Oracle official documentation:
Check whether the Oracle package has been installed: