Installing the Oracle Companion CD

We had already installed Oracle 10g and Spatial by this stage (see InstallingOracleSpatial). We are installing on a Red Hat 9 system.

Extracting the installer

1. Unzipped the ship.ccd.cpio.gz file: gunzip ship.ccd.cpio.gz
2. As root, copied the resulting ship.ccd.cpio file to ~oracle/companion_cd_installer. (Note that this will lead to the creation of a directory tree that is separate from the original Oracle installation tree - not sure if this is necessary or not)
3. Changed the ownership of ~oracle/companion_cd_installer/ship.ccd.cpio to oracle and the group to oinstall.
4. Logged on as oracle
5. Extracted the cpio archive: cpio -idcmv < ship.ccd.cpio

Preparing for installation

1. Need to fool Oracle into thinking this is a Red Hat Enterprise system:

=su
cp /etc/redhat-release /etc/redhat-release.backup
cat > /etc/redhat-release << EOF
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon)
EOF
=

Install the software

1. From the directory ~oracle/companion_cd_installer, ran Disk1/install/runInstaller
2. Clicked 'Next'.
3. Changed the name of the installation to 'OraDb10g_home1' (the original Oracle location) and clicked 'Next'
4. Accepted default of "Oracle Database 10g Products 10.1.0.2.0" and clicked 'Next'
5. Clicked 'Install' (it's going to install a whole heap of stuff but there didn't seem to be a way of selecting sections to install)
6. Followed instructions about running configuration script as root ( /u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.0/db_1/root.sh )
   • Installed NetWorker software (option 1)
   • Tried to install LSSV software (option 2) - this failed as it said that there was a previous installation of LSSV.
   • Clicked OK in the installer to confirm I'd run the script
7. Got message saying everything had been successful. Clicked 'Exit'.

Post installation

1. Restored the original /etc/redhat-release file (see "Preparing for installation" above).

-- JonBlower - 11 Mar 2004