8.The temporary disk space in /tmp is checked. If the disk space in /tmp is less that 400 MB, the installation will abort with the below message.
ERROR: You need at least 400MB in the /tmp directory.
You only have 100 MB.
Terminating installation.
9.Appropriate kernel parameters are automatically set by the installation script.
Figure 2 Setting Kernel Parameters
10.On SUSE systems, the oracle user account should be enabled prior to starting the installation. If the oracle user is not enabled, an error message is shown as below.
Figure 3 Oracle User Account Not Enabled Error
On Red Hat systems, if an oracle user is already existing, an error message is shown indicating that this oracle user needs to be deleted. The following shows the error message.
ERROR: This script has detected an existing Oracle user account on this system.
This script requires that no Oracle user account be present prior to the installation.
Please contact your System Administrator to resolve this conflict.
11.When prompted, enter the Oracle home directory. The default location for SUSE 9 and SUSE 10 is /opt/oracle, and for RHEL 4 is /home/oracle.
12.When prompted, enter the Oracle installation directory. The default location is opt/oracle.
Please enter the Oracle user's home directory. [Default: /home/oracle]
Please enter Oracle installation directory [Default: /opt/oracle]
INFO: Created Oracle users home directory.
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