steps for Installation of oracle 11g R2 on Linux

Step 1 :-- Check the space 

[root@localhost ~]# df -kh
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
18G   14G  2.7G  84% /
/dev/sda1              99M   11M   83M  12% /boot
tmpfs                1003M     0 1003M   0% /dev/shm
Oracle11gR2           932G  821G  111G  89% /media/sf_Oracle11gR2
[root@localhost ~]# 



Step 2
add 2 groups "oinstall" and "dba"and 1 user "oracle"


[root@localhost ~]# groupadd oinstall
[root@localhost ~]# groupadd dba
[root@localhost ~]# useradd -g oinstall -G dba oracle
[root@localhost ~]# passwd oracle  

step 3
copy database dump in  linux 

[root@localhost home]# cp -r /media/sf_Oracle11gR2/database  /home/oracle/

Logout from Root user

loging as oracle user

step 4 
oracle@localhost ~]$ pwd
/home/oracle
[oracle@localhost ~]$ ls -ltr
total 8
drwxr-x--- 8 root   root     4096 Aug 25 01:05 database
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Aug 25 01:11 Desktop
[oracle@localhost ~]$ su - root
Password: 
[root@localhost ~]# pwd
/root
[root@localhost ~]# cd /home
[root@localhost home]# pwd
/home
[root@localhost home]# cd oracle/





[root@localhost oracle]# chown -R oracle:oinstall database
[root@localhost oracle]# ls -ltr
total 8
drwxr-x--- 8 oracle oinstall 4096 Aug 25 01:05 database
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Aug 25 01:11 Desktop
[root@localhost oracle]# EXIT

oracle@localhost ~]$ cd database/
[oracle@localhost database]$ ls
doc  install  response  rpm  runInstaller  sshsetup  stage  welcome.html
[oracle@localhost database]$ ls -ltr
total 36
drwxr-x--- 12 oracle oinstall 4096 Aug 25 01:02 doc
drwxr-x---  2 oracle oinstall 4096 Aug 25 01:02 sshsetup
-rwxr-x---  1 oracle oinstall 3226 Aug 25 01:02 runInstaller
drwxr-x---  2 oracle oinstall 4096 Aug 25 01:02 rpm
drwxr-x---  2 oracle oinstall 4096 Aug 25 01:02 response
drwxr-x---  4 oracle oinstall 4096 Aug 25 01:02 install
-rwxr-x---  1 oracle oinstall 5402 Aug 25 01:05 welcome.html
drwxr-x--- 14 oracle oinstall 4096 Aug 25 01:05 stage





oracle@localhost database]$ cd ..
[oracle@localhost ~]$ chmod -R 777 database 
[oracle@localhost ~]$ ls -ltr
total 8
drwxrwxrwx 8 oracle oinstall 4096 Aug 25 01:05 database
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Aug 25 01:11 Desktop

[oracle@localhost ~]$ cd database/
[oracle@localhost database]$ ./r
response/     rpm/          runInstaller  
[oracle@localhost database]$ ./runInstaller 
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...

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