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Performing pre-installation operations

Performing preinstallation operations involves manual and automated tasks from the SF Oracle RAC configuration program.

The Oracle installation requires some preparation such as creating the Oracle user and group ID, and creating disk groups, volumes, and mount points.

• Adding users and groups for Oracle.
• Setting up oracle user equivalence for RSH and RCP.
• Verifying RSH access for "oracle" user.
• Creating file system or volume for SRVM.
• Creating a disk group and file system for the Oracle software.
• Preparing $ORACLE_BASE on each node.
• Preparing $ORACLE_HOME on each node.