How to install Oracle Database 11gR2 11.2.0.3.0 64-bit On Oracle Solaris 10 64-bit

In this article I will describe the installation of Oracle Database 11gR2 11.2.0.3 64-bit on Oracle Solaris 10 64-bit.

Login with root user, open a terminal and check the physical memory by issuing following command.

/usr/sbin/prtconf | grep "Mem"

Memory should be approximately 1 GB otherwise it will fail the memory check (ignorable) during the installation as in my case.

Check the swap space available by issuing following command.

/usr/sbin/swap -l

Available swap should be approximately 1.5 GB. if you have swap space less then 1.5 GB you can add swap file by issuing following command.

mkfile 1024m /export/home/swapfile

swap -a /export/home/swapfile

Add the following entry in /etc/vfstab

/export/home/swapfile - - swap - no -

You can also check the space available under /tmp by issuing following command.

df -h /tmp

Check the hardware information by issuing following command.

/bin/isainfo -kv

Following should appear as the result of command above otherwise Oracle Database 11gR2 64-bit will not be installed.

64-bit amd64 kernel modules

Check the OS version installed by issuing following command.

uname -r

5.10 should appear as the result of command above.

Add following commands in /etc/system

set noexec_user_stack=1
set semsys:seminfo_semmni=100
set semsys:seminfo_semmns=1024
set semsys:seminfo_semmsl=256
set shmsys:shminfo_semvmx=32767
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=4294967295
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=100
set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=10

Execute following commands to set tcp and upd port parameters

ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_smallest_anon_port 9000
ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_largest_anon_port 65500
ndd -set /dev/udp udp_smallest_anon_port 9000
ndd -set /dev/udp udp_largest_anon_port 65500

Check the value of max-shm-memory and max-sem-ids for the root user

prctl -n project.max-shm-memory -i project user.root
prctl -n project.max-sem-ids -i project user.root

Modify these parameters as follows

prctl -n project.max-shm-memory -v 6gb -r -i project user.root
prctl -n project.max-sem-ids -v 256 -r -i project user.root

Create "oracle" user for installation by issuing following commands.

groupadd oinstall
groupadd dba
groupadd oper
useradd -g oinstall -G dba,oper -m -d /export/home/orale -s /bin/sh oracle
passwd -r files oracle

Add oracle project by issuing following command

projadd oracle

And append the following line to the "/etc/user_attr" file.

oracle::::project=oracle

Open a new terminal and login with oracle the issue following commands from root's terminal

prctl -n project.max-shm-memory -v 4gb -r -i project oracle
projmod -s -K "project.max-shm-memory=(priv,4gb,deny)" oracle

 

From root user install SUNWi1cs and SUNWi15cs packages by issuing following commands. these packages are available in Solaris 10 DVD.

pkgadd -d /cdrom/sol_10_811_x86/Solaris_10/Product SUNWi1cs SUNWi15cs

Create database installation directories by issuing following commands

mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle
chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01/app/oracle
chmod -R 775 /u01/app/oracle/

Login with oracle user and add following line into .profile

umask 022

ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle

export ORACLE_BASE
ORACLE_SID=orcl

export ORACLE_SID

Now execute the .profile by issuing following commands

. ./.profile

Download Oracle Database 11gR2 11.2.0.3.0 64-bit from Oracle Software Delivery Cloud and extract it to some where lets say /export/home/oracle/

 

cd /export/home/oracle/database

./runInstaller

Un check the security updates check box and click Next.

 

Click Yes.

Select Skip software updates and click Next.