Oracle 10g Installation & Configuration On Solaris Platform

Step 1
Install the Operating System
Note: No specified operating system patches are required with Solaris 10 OS.

Step 2
Make sure that following software packages has been installed.
SUNWarc
SUNWbtool
SUNWhea
SUNWlibm
SUNWlibms
SUNWsprot
SUNWtoo
SUNWilof
SUNWxwfnt
SUNWilcs
SUNWsprox
SUNWil5cs

Note: We can verify that packages are installed or not by using following command: $pkginfo -i.

Step 3
Check following executable file must be presents in /usr/ccs/bin
make
ar
il
nm

Step 4
Checks swap space. Swap space should be 512MB or Twice the size of RAM. Use following command to know about Physical Memory and Swap space:

$ /usr/sbin/prtconf grep size
$ /usr/sbin/swap –l

Step 5
Need at least 400 MB of free space in /tmp directory.

Step 6
Set following kernel parameter in /etc/system file and reboot the server.

Set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=4294967295
Set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=100
Set semsys:seminfo_semmsl=256
Set semsys:seminfo_semmni=100

Step 7
Create a group.

$ groupadd –g 300 dba *
$ groupadd –g 301 oinstall **

* “DBA” group will be use by the Oracle Software Owner and Database Administrators.

** “OINSTALL” group will be use when you installing multiple copies of the oracle software on one server and you will want some logins to be able to log onto some databases with DBA privileges but not others.

Step 8
Create a Unix user that will be the Oracle Software Owner.

$ useradd –c ‘Oracle Software Owner’ –d /oracle –g oinstall –G dba –m –u 300 –s /usr/bin/ksh oracle

$passwd oracle

Step 9
Create directory for oracle software and Database.

$ mkdir /oracle/app /oracle/oradata
$chown oracle:dba /oracle
$chmod 775 /oracle

Step 10
Create the /var/opt/oracle directory

$mkdir /var/opt/oracle
$chown oracle:dba /var/opt/oracle
$chmod 755 /var/opt/oracle

Step 11
edit .profile file and type following endearments

export ORACLE_BASE=/oracle

export ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/app

export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib

Step 12
Set X window enveiroment.

Log in as a root with CDE (Common Desktop Environment Session)
$ DISPLAY=:0.0
$export DISPLAY
$xhost +
$ su – oracle
$DISPLAY=:0.0
$export DISPLAY
$/usr/openwin/bin/xclock

Step 13

Log in as a ORACLE user and execute run installer.

$./runInstaller

We will wait through the installer prompts one at the time.