Installation guide

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Preface
This document describes the step−by−step installation process of Oracle 9i (9.0.1) on the SuSE
Linux Enterprise Server 7. For detailed Oracle instructions see the Oracle Installation Guide and
the Oracle Administration Guide, both very good documents, that come with Oracle 9i. For more
Oracle books see http://technet.oracle.com/, where they are made available online.
The Oracle Installation Guide provides a much more comprehensive overview over all the possible
installation options. This document on the other hand uses only one typical installation method as
an example. If you want to know all the details about the Oracle installer and the Oracle tools like
the Database Creation Assistant, see the Oracle documentation.
This document is based on the Oracle Installation Guide provided by Oracle. It leaves out all the
things that unnecessary because it is the default in SuSE Linux Enterprise Server anyway. An
example is the creation of an Oracle user and groups, or the umask setting for this user, which are
already provided by SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 in exactly the way Oracle recommends it.
There are two sections: A very short, text−only one for (somewhat) experienced users, and a much
longer and more detailed one. The Quick Installation section is at the end of this document.
You will find additional information online at the SuSE support pages for Oracle located at
http://www.suse.com/oracle/