Oracle® Database Installation Guide 11g Release 2 (11.2) for Linux Part Number E24321-03 |
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This guide provides instructions about how to install and configure Oracle Database for Linux. This guide describes Optimal Flexible Architecture, Database Storage Options, and Database Configuration Options. This guide also describes installing and configuring a database using response files, globalization support, ports, and troubleshooting.
The preface contains the following topics:
This guide is intended for anyone responsible for installing Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) on Linux systems. Additional installation guides for Oracle Database, Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle Clusterware, Oracle Database Examples, and Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control are available on the relevant installation media.
See Also:
To install Oracle Database using the default settings refer to:
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UNIX command syntax appears in monospace
font. The dollar sign ($), number sign (#), or percent sign (%) are UNIX command prompts. Do not enter them as part of the command. The following command syntax conventions are used in this guide:
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backslash \ | A backslash is the UNIX command continuation character. It is used in command examples that are too long to fit on a single line. Enter the command as displayed (with a backslash) or enter it on a single line without a backslash:
dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s6 of=/dev/rst0 bs=10b \ count=10000 |
braces { } | Braces indicate required items:
.DEFINE {macro1} |
brackets [ ] | Brackets indicate optional items:
cvtcrt termname [outfile] |
ellipses ... | Ellipses indicate an arbitrary number of similar items:
CHKVAL fieldname value1 value2 ... valueN |
italic | Italic type indicates a variable. Substitute a value for the variable:
library_name
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vertical line | | A vertical line indicates a choice within braces or brackets:
FILE filesize [K|M]
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The documentation for this release includes platform-specific documentation and generic product documentation.
Platform-Specific Documentation
Platform-specific documentation includes information about installing and using Oracle products on particular platforms.
This guide contains information required to install Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) on various platforms of Linux. Ensure that you review information related to the platform on which you intend to install Oracle Database 11g.
The platform-specific documentation for this product is available in both PDF and HTML format on the product media. To access the platform-specific documentation on media:
Use a Web browser to open the welcome.html
file in the top-level directory of the media.
Platform-specific documentation is available in PDF and HTML formats in the Documentation section.
Product documentation includes information about configuring, using, or administering Oracle products on any platform. The product documentation for Oracle Database 11g products is available in both HTML and PDF formats in the following locations:
On the Oracle Database Documentation Library media
Use a Web browser to view or open the index.htm
file in the top-level directory on the media.
Online on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) Web site:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/documentation/index.html
The related documentation for Oracle Database 11g products includes the following manuals:
Oracle Universal Installer and OPatch User's Guide for Windows and UNIX
Oracle Database Client Quick Installation Guide for Linux x86
Oracle Database Client Quick Installation Guide for Linux x86-64
Oracle Database Quick Installation Guide for IBM: Linux on System z
Oracle Database Client Quick Installation Guide for IBM: Linux on System z
Oracle Database Administrator's Reference for Linux and UNIX-Based Operating Systems
For information about Oracle error messages, see Oracle Database Error Messages. Oracle error message documentation is available only in HTML. If you only have access to the Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) Online Documentation Library, then you can browse the error messages by range. After you find the specific range, use your browser's "find in page" feature to locate the specific message. When connected to the Internet, you can search for a specific error message using the error message search feature of the Oracle online documentation.
Many books in the documentation set use the sample schemas of the seed database, which is installed by default when you install Oracle Database. See Oracle Database Sample Schemas for information about how these schemas were created and how you can use them yourself.
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http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/join/overview/index.html
If you have a user name and password for Oracle Technology Network, then you can go directly to the documentation section of Oracle Technology Network Web site at:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/documentation/index.html
See Oracle Database Release Notes for Linux for important information that was not available when this book was released. The release notes for Oracle Database 11g are updated regularly. The most recent version is available on Oracle Technology Network at:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/documentation/index.html
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