Chapter 30.117Preparing Red Hat Enterprise Linux foran Oracle Database InstallationThis chapter will guide you though the pre-installation procedures for installing Oracle 9i on Red HatEnterprise Linux30.1. Unpacking and Downloading the Oracle9i InstallationFilesDownload Oracle9i for Linux from http://otn.oracle.com/software/products/oracle9i/htdocs/linuxsoft.html.Here are two methods for unpacking the Oracle installation files, choose one. First method - thismethod uses less disk space and should be faster:zcat lnx_920_disk1.cpio.gz | cpio -idmvzcat lnx_920_disk2.cpio.gz | cpio -idmvzcat lnx_920_disk3.cpio.gz | cpio -idmvSecond method - this method first uncompresses then unpacks the installation files:gunzip lnx_920_disk1.cpio.gz lnx_920_disk2.cpio.gz lnx_920_disk3.cpio.gz Linux9i_Disk3.cpio.gzcpio -idmv < lnx_920_disk1.cpiocpio -idmv < lnx_920_disk2.cpiocpio -idmv < lnx_920_disk3.cpioYou should now have 3 directories containing installation files, if ls looks like this it worked correctly:$ lsDisk1Disk2Disk330.2. Setting Swap SpaceAccording to Oracle9i Installation Guide Release 21 a minimum of 512MB of RAM is required to installan Oracle9i Server. The swap space should be equal to RAM, or 1GB, whichever is greater. For moreinformation on correctly sizing the swap space for your database, read Chapter 6, Swap Space..To check the memory, run:grep MemTotal /proc/meminfoTo check the swap space, run:cat /proc/swaps1 http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/html/A96167_01/pre.htm#sthref104
