Well, so much for updating the blog on a daily basis for the install. Things have been moving fast for me in the past couple weeks, but fortunately there really isn't much to the Linux/Oracle DB install.
I started getting in to the database end of the install and started finding that it took a lot of effort to get 10g patched and capable of running on Linux. After a while I decided that I would install 11g instead since that is what I would actually be installing out in the field.
Installing 11g on Linux is about as easy as it gets... well, for Linux, that is. Of course before you install 11g you'll want to patch Linux using up2date. If you don't have an up2date account, well then I can't help you. next you will extract and run the Oracle installer.
The 11g installer makes things so easy you'll be wondering what steps you skipped when you're done. The very few things you need to do are explained in detail. You'll have to run a couple of scripts of course, and 11g will attempt to download and install any rpms that it needs. There is a list that you'll have to do manually there as well.
I was installing on a 64-bit server, and interestingly enough it required three 32-bit RPMs. To get RPMs for a different architecture, just use the --arch:i386 argument when you run up2date.
After you're finished with all that, you just have to check patches and what-not, and here Oracle 11g shines again. In the new Oracle 11g EM, there is a link for patches and updates. That will go out and find anything you might need to get up to date. Chances are all that was taken care of during the installation, but it's not a bad idea to go ahead and look one more time.
That's all there is to Linux/Oracle DB - seriously. Of course the hard part would be installing E1 on that system but unfortunately I didn't get to that. If I get the chance to do the actual Linux/Oracle install at the client, you can be sure that I'll talk about it a lot!
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