The points on installing Oracle in non windows environment

The points on installing Oracle in non windows environment is (from my point of view) are :

1. Of course you must have the Installer source and check if the installer is compatible with your UNIX or LINUX version


2. Check the packages needed by the oracle Installer to successfully installed in your UNIX (check the pkginfo) and Linux (check it use rpm command)


3. Check your memory ( mostly oracle required 512 MB)


4. Check your diskspace, including your tmp diskspace and another partition for the oracle.


5. Create your Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA), it's the oracle file folder structure


6. Create DBA and OINSTALL group for installation


7. Set environment variable for oracle, including oracle_home,oracle_base, etc.


8. Create user oracle for installation.

This some useful link for Oracle installation in non windows environment :


oracle documentation


ORACLE-BASE