Oracle RAC 11gR2 Installation on OEL 5 Part - 1

Download VMware Workstation 9 

Download OEL 5.8 x86_64

In this step by step tutorial I’m going to show you the installation of Oracle 11gR2 on OEL 5.5

Create a new VMware virtual machine

Select Typical and click Next

Select Linux and “OEL 64bit” as an OS version and click next

Provide the name of virtual machine and specify the location and click next

Specify the size of the virtual machine and click Finish

set Memory to 2560 Mb

mount ISO image of the OEL 5.6 OS and click OK

Select “Use bridged networking” and click Next

Click “Power on” button to start the virtual machine

Click enter

Select Skip button

Click Next

Select Installation language and click next

Select the keyboard and click next

Click on Yes

 Click on Yes

Select the country and click next

Provide the password of the root user and click next

To install required packages for Oracle installation select “Customize now” and click Next

Click Next to start the installation

Click on Reboot button

Click Forward

Choose the first option and click Forward

As we use the virtual machine for testing purpose, disable the firewall and click Forward

Disable Selinux and click Forward

Click Forward

Specify the time and date and click Forward

We don’t need to create a user so click Forward

Click Finish button to finish the installation of OEL

Click Ok to reboot.

Install VMWare Tools

--> Go to VM and select Install VMware tools

we can see VMware Tools will be created on Desktop.

Right Click on above highlighted one and select Extract To

And select Extract as shown to Desktop

Open the below highlighted one

Double click on highlighted one

Click on Run In Terminal

Then keep entering as shown below