Hello Members!!

This is my very first post, so my sincere apologies if I have flouted any Forum rules here..

Ok, so I have a Sony Vaio laptop with Win 7 Ultimate edition (x64 bit) installed.

As I wanted to practice Oracle 10g DBA queries, i decided to instal RHEL 5.4 as a dual boot option. all went well with the dual boot installation...

Now, I just can't find a correct version of Oracle's 10g Enterprise Edition to install (from the Oracle's website).

I tried 2-3 different version and all I get is this info below:
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Using paramFile: located in ---> /home/oracle/database/install/oraparam.ini


Checking installer requirements...

Checking operating system version: must be redhat-3, SuSE-9, redhat-4, UnitedLinux-1.0, asianux-1 or asianux-2
Failed <<<<

Exiting Oracle Universal Installer, log for this session can be found at /tmp/OraInstall2012-05-17_12-01-35AM/installActions2012-05-17_12-01-35AM.log

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So, please fellow members, guide me to the correct version of Oralce 10g...


Cheers n e-peace....

The error says it all. 10g requires an older OS, from RHEL4. Download 11g here

^^

thankyou! for ur reply.. really appreciate the quick response..

Well, I have 2 questions:

Since 10g requires RHEL 4 and lower (as per the installActions.log file entry, So,

1.) How can I install RHEL 4 in my laptop considering the fact that I already have Win7 (x64 bit) + RHEL 5.4
installed, How can I remove rhel 5.4 completely and install a fresh copy of RHEL 4.

-or-

If that's hectic to do,

2.) Does 11g (for linux) as per the link provided by u have all the features (for home/student use)
such as RMAN (Recovery Manager), Flashback Technologies (such as Flashback Database etc), ASM etc,

Because, my main aim is to practice DBA queries as im doin a course on Oracle 10g Administrator Workshop-I & II,

So, I need a Enterprise Edition (not Express edition) of Oracle 10g/11g for my requirement..


Cheers n e-peace...

Downgrade your RHEL installation? But that would suck the hell out of you, so I suggest you upgrade to RHEL6.

Oracle Enterprise Edition is not free, you only have 30days trial. After which, you must purchase subscription. When Oracle conducts an audit and they find your installation, they may press legal actions against you.

With 'DBA queries', do you mean SQL? If so, you can just settle for MySQL, which would be more than enough for you. RMAN, Flashback, and ASM are pretty advanced concepts, and I guess you wouldn't be able to study ASM on a 'laptop'.

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Absolutely right about ASM, sorry, my bad... :P

Just wanted to confirm whether 11g (Standard Edition) work seamlessly on my current Linux version (RHEL 5.4)? (im in the process of d/loading it rite now

Yes, by "DBA Queries" i meant using SQL language to create a database, create other structures of the DB such as tablespaces etc, and manipulation of those structures



CHeers n e-peace...

Hello Again!!

Well, I was able to d/load Oracle 11gR2 from Oracle's website.

I unzipped all the zip files to /home/11g
ding so got a 'database' directory inside which 'ruInstaller' file is present.

Now, whenever I try to run the Installer as this way:

(at the $ prompt terminal as a 'root' login) as shown below:

$ cd/home/11g/database <ENTER>
$ ./runInstaller


I get the message :

./runInstaller: line 254: /home/11g/database/install/.oui/: cannot execute binary file.

Am I missing out on something..?? I know I a doing something very wrong here, but ca't seem to figure out what it is..
Isn't the installaton of an Oracle DB as simple as running the /runInstaller file from the terminal..??

Cheers n e-peace...

Yes, you run ./runInstaller.sh, but it's not as simple as that. I suggest you read this. Take note of the special user accounts and user groups required, as you should not be using the root user.