Oracle on SuSE
last modified: 18/04/2006

Due to lack of specific information on the installation of Oracle on SuSE (now Novell/SuSE)  I decided to write a couple of mini-HOWTOs to help myself and few others. Even if things changed and Novell provided good documentation I'm still here writing. It is most for myself (I don't wish to be back on the same mistakes again and again) but if you find it useful feel free to follow these notes.

The documents on AMD64 are reported to work even on EM64T. Unfortunately I have only AMD machines for my tests so I cannot try by myself.
(Actually I have found a couple of spare HP blades with Xeon64. I'm going to test them as soon as possible).

The site is growing but at the moment I have only these papers available:

Oracle 10.2.0.1 (10gR2) on SUSE LINUX   *it covers SLES9 and SUSE 10*

Oracle Clusterware 10.2.0.1 (CRS 10gR2) on SLES9   *Basics for RAC 10gR2*

Oracle 9i for x86-64 on SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 AMD64 version.

Oracle 10g for x86 on SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 AMD64 version. *obsolete (but still useful)*

Oracle 10.1.0.3 for x86-64 on SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 AMD64.

Oracle 10.1.0.3 for x86 on SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 x86.

Oracle 10g for x86 on SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 x86 version (cut and paste of the previous document).

Grid Control 10.1.0.3 on SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9.  *the hard way!*

Oracle RAC 10g on SLES9 for x86 systems.

Oracle 10gR2 client on SUSE 10 for x86 systems.

Application Server 10gR2 (10.1.2.0) on SLES9 for x86 systems. *digression on LD_ASSUME_KERNEL!!!*

Application Server 10.1.3 (preview 4) on SLES9.

Asynch I/O on SLES.  *updated and not obsolete anymore*

Using HUGETABLE in oracle and "ORA-27125: unable to create shared memory segment".


Other Topics:

Oracle myths for unix sysadmins * check this out if you want to open a discussion *

Clustering third party applications with 10gR2 clusterware  *supposed to be an article *

Generic Connecivity: connecting oracle to another DB.

Advanced Security

Oracle on Ubuntu   *Work in progress: we hope for an enterprise distribution soon*

Links:

Oracle Technology Network (where you can find the software for the installation).

Novell webpage for SuSE and Oracle with the original installation documents by Arun Singh.


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