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Performing the Oracle 10g preinstallation tasks

The Oracle installation requires the following preparation:

• Creating Oracle user and group id
• Creating disk groups, volumes, and mount points for Oracle
• Configuring private IP addresses for CRS
• Editing the VCS configuration for additional CRS resources
• Creating public virtual IP addresses for Oracle
• Starting VCS, CVM, and CFS on all nodes
• Verifying GAB port membership

You can choose to perform all preinstallation tasks or only specific tasks using the SF Oracle RAC configuration program. Note that you must manually perform some of the preinstallation tasks.

See Sample output for Oracle 10g RAC installation

 To perform the Oracle 10g preinstallation tasks

1. Launch the SF Oracle RAC configuration program:

   # installsfrac -configure

2. Enter the system names.
3. From the configuration program menu, select Prepare to install Oracle.
4. Select the preinstallation task from the configuration menu.
5. If you select Perform all Oracle preinstallation tasks, the configuration program takes you through the other menu options:
   • Create Oracle user and group id

     See Creating Oracle user and group id

   • Create disk groups, volumes, and mount points for Oracle

     See Creating disk groups, volumes, and mount points for Oracle

   • Configure private IP addresses for CRS

     See Configuring private IP addresses for CRS