6.The oracle installer script checks for required RPMs and terminates if any required RPM is missing. In such case, install the missing RPMs and restart the installation.

INFO: Checking for required packages...

ERROR: sysstat is not installed.

ERROR: Please install missing pre-requisite packages before proceeding with installation.

Terminating installation.

If the installer finds a different version of a pre-requisite RPM, it will prompt the user to confirm continuing the installation.

INFO: Checking for required packages...

WARN: Looking for package gcc-4.1.0. Found gcc-4.1.2_20070115-0.11.

WARN: Looking for package gcc-c++-4.1.0. Found gcc-c++-4.1.2_20070115-0.11.

WARN: Version mismatch in pre-requisite packages.

Oracle may not work with these versions.

Do you want to continue? [y/n]: y

INFO: Verified pre-requisite packages.

INFO: Proceeding with installation...

7.If there is insufficient swap space, the script displays a message saying that the swap space is insufficient and a message similar to the following displays:

INFO: Checking swap space...

INFO: Available RAM: 4082752

INFO: Recommended Swap size: 4082752

INFO: Current Swap: 2097144

INFO: Insufficient swap size.

INFO: Creating additional swap space: 1985608 1985608+0 records in

1985608+0 records out mke2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)

/tmp/swapForOracle1.tmp is not a block special device. Proceed anyway? (y,n)

Enter ‘y’ at the prompt.

You may be prompted to create multiple swap files. Enter ‘y’ each time you encounter the prompt described above.

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