10g RAC on RHEL4 64 Bit

Hi,
Can any one please help me finding out a step by step installation guide (other than 10g documentation) of ORacle 10g RAC on Red Har Enterprise Linux 4 (64 bit) either available on oracle web site, metalink OR from any other web site.
Thanks

Daniel,
Again ... my initial response was that I was insulted by the implications: Still am.
Perhaps you are hoping someone else will steal that copywrited material and send it to you? Is that what you are asking?I think your initial response is little bit excessive (IMO). OP didn't say that "Somebody steal the content from metalink and send it to me please". He might requesting specific note id for appropriate document which describes installation in "instant" form.
But do you really think, for even one minute, that anyone who has invested many hundreds of hours into creating a training class is going to send you their materials for free?Somebody called "Linus" and many others invested many hundreds of hours to create OS which you are using for free (and you are recommending it in your posts)... ;-)
What if there is some altruist which could provide the such complex paper for RAC?
Your third post is correct and I absolutely agree with you (except last sentence).
Salman,
you can look to get inspired at "DBA" articles on OTN website (http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/tech_dba.html#linux) or RAC SIG site and compare it with official documentation or metalink notes. Only documentation and metalink notes are 100% assurance that your installation/configuration will be supported. And in case of doubts you still can contact Oracle support and consult planned steps/implementation.
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Ivan Kartik
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