Oracle 9.2.0.4 and RH AS 3.0

[Ray Stell]

I'd like to receive comments on the implications of the suggested
changes below proposed by Oracle support.   These are required to get
the Oracle installer to run on a RH 3.0 system.  I find these rather a
support nightmare.  If I back down the kernel and glibc, how will Red
Hat support react?  What will up2date do when it detects this?  Is RH AS 
2.1 a better choice?  Thanks.

>From Oracle support:
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The following requirements are needed for a successful installation of Oracle 9iR2 (9.2.0.1) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
1. Software:
Linux kernel version would be 2.4.21-4.EL
Glibc Version Number glibc 2.3.2-95.3
Required OS Patches
- compat-db-4.0.14.5
- compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.122
- compat-gcc-c++-7.3-2.96.122
- compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.122
- compat-libstdc++-devel-7.3-2.96.122
- openmotif21-2.1.30-8.i386.rpm
- setarch-1.3-1
2. Environment:
Put gcc296 and g++296 first in $PATH variable by creating the following symbolic links. These are required for the relinking of some Oracle binaries (as root)

% mv /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/gcc323
% mv /usr/bin/g++ /usr/bin/g++323
% ln -s /usr/bin/gcc296 /usr/bin/gcc
% ln -s /usr/bin/g++296 /usr/bin/g++


hostname command should return the fully qualified hostname as shown below:
- % hostname
- hostname.domainname
If any Java packages are installed on the system, unset the Java environment variables, for example JAVA_HOME.
The oracle account used to install Oracle 9.2.0.1, should not have the Oracle install related variables set by default. For example setting ORACLE_HOME, PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include Oracle binaries in .profile, .login file and /etc/profile.d should be completely avoided.
3. Other environment settings:
For hugemem kernel install rpm setarch-1.0-2.i386.rpm or higher.
- % setarch i386
For uni, smp and boot kernel this step is not required.

Define and export the environment variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL before starting the install process:
- % export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19
Additional Installation Steps

Open a new terminal window
Apply bug patch 3006854 - to resolve libcwait symbol issue before invoking Oracle installer.
After completing above steps start ./runInstaller from 9iR2 CD 1 from shell where you have defined above variable. You may get the following two errors:
Relink error for ins_oemagent.mk - Click ignore and complete the install. Apply the patch for Bug 3119415 after the install is completed
ctx relinking error in ins_ctx.mk: Click ignore. This is fixed by applying 9.2.0.4 patchset
The installation will continue without displaying further errors.
ADDITIONAL NOTE

For customers using asynch_io , apply bug patch 3208258.

ACTION PLAN:
Please review the Certification requirements and ensure that they are all addressed.
This should resolve this issue.
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Ray Stell   stellr at vt.edu     (540) 231-4109     KE4TJC    28^D