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5.1 Latest Upgrade Information
For late-breaking updates and best practices about preupgrade, post-upgrade,
compatibility, and interoperability discussions, refer to Note 466181.1 on
OracleMetalink (https://metalink.oracle.com/) that links to "The
Upgrade Companion" Web site.
5.2 Upgrading Oracle Real Application Clusters Release 9.2
If you are upgrading a 9.2 RAC environment to Oracle Database 10g release 2 on
Red Hat Linux 3.0, then you must apply a patch to GLIBC before proceeding
with the Oracle Clusterware installation. Follow the instructions documented in
OracleMetaLink note 284535.1.
This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 3006854.
5.3 Oracle Universal Installer Operating System Prerequisite Checks
If you are installing Oracle Database 10g on Oracle Enterprise linux 5.0, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.0, or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, the current version of
Oracle Universal Installer does not recognized these operating systems as
supported operating systems and does not perform the installation.
Workaround #1 (recommended): Run the Oracle Universal Installer using the
ignoreSysPrereqs flag which causes the installer to skip the operating system
check and continue with the installation:
./runinstaller -ignoreSysPrereqs
As a side effect, the installer also skips other checks during the installation.
Workaround #2: On Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.0 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5.0, the installation passes the operating system prerequisite checks if you change
each 5 to 4 in the /etc/redhat-release file. Ensure that you replace the
original values in the /etc/redhat-release file after the Oracle installation is
complete.
On SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, the installation will pass the operating
system prerequisite checks if you change each 10 to 9 in the
/etc/SuSE-release file. Ensure that you replace the original values in the
/etc/SuSE-release file after the Oracle installation is complete.
Original Value Changed Value
Enterprise Linux Enterprise
Linux server release 5
(On Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.0)
Enterprise Release Enterprise
Linux server release 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux server
release 5
(On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux server
release 4
Original Value Changed Value
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
(x86_64)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
(x86_64)