Oracle Linux NTFS how-to

h1. Oracle Linux NTFS how-to
Author: Dude
Version: B, 22-Jan-2012
h2. Purpose
This document contains instructions how to install NTFS support under Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4, 5 and Oracle Linux version 5 and 6.
h2. Topics
1) Determine Kernel Architecture and Distribution
2) Setup Software Repositories
3) Install the NTFS Kernel Driver and Software
4) Find and Mount a NTFS Device
5) Notes
h3. 1) Determine Kernel Architecture and Distribution
Open a Terminal command prompt and enter the following to check if your system is x86 or x86_64:
# uname -m
x86_64If you see "i686" or "i386" instead then your system is x86.
# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 9)The above example shows you are running Enterprise Linux version 4.9
h3. 2) Setup Software Repositories
You will need to setup access to two software repositories.
Oracle ULN or public yum:
The installation of RPM software packages can be complex due to software conflicts or package dependencies. It is easier to use a software manager like "yum", which will automatically resolve package dependencies and prompt you to download required software if necessary.
For those who do not have a support subscription and access to Oracle ULN, Oracle provides a public YUM software repository to give you free online access to the standard software distributions. Simply follow the instructions outlined at http://public-yum.oracle.com. You only need to enable the software repository that matches your version according to the previous step.
Reproforge:
The NTFS driver is provided by the Repoforge alias RPMforge software repository. For more information about Repoforge, please see http://repoforge.org/faq. NTFS-3G is a stable, full-featured, read-write NTFS driver for Linux and other operating systems. For more information check http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download, where you can also download the source code should you prefer to compile your own NTFS driver.
Depending on your current distribution and kernel architecture, you need to install the following:
Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.x x86:
# wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el4.rf.i386.rpm
# rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el4.rf.i386.rpm
Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.x x86_64:
# wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el4.rf.x86_64.rpm
# rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el4.rf.x86_64.rpm
Oracle Enterprise Linux / Oracle Linux 5.x x86:
# wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm
# rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm
Oracle Enterprise Linux / Oracle Linux 5.x x86_64:
# wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
# rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
Oracle Linux 6.x x86:
# wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.i686.rpm
# rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.i686.rpm
Oracle Linux 6.x x86_64:
# wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
# rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpmh3. 3) Install the NTFS Kernel Driver and Related Software
The software packages required to support NTFS depends on your current Linux distribution:
Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.x:
# yum install dkms dkms-fuse fuse fuse-ntfs-3g
Oracle Enterprise Linux / Oracle Linux 5.0 - 5.2:
# yum install dkms dkms-fuse fuse fuse-ntfs-3g
Oracle Enterprise Linux / Oracle Linux 5.3:
NTFS support under Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.3 is broken and you should consider to upgrade to the 5.4 or later. (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481495)
Oracle Enterprise Linux / Oracle Linux 5.4 - 5.x:
As of Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.4 the the kernel fuse module (dkms, dkms-fuse) is included in the kernel and should not be installed.
# yum install fuse fuse-ntfs-3g
Oracle Enterprise Linux / Oracle Linux 6.x:
# yum install fuse fuse-ntfs-3g h3. 4) Find and Mount a NTFS Device
You can use the "blkid" command to identify attached devices. For instance:
sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: LABEL="/boot" UUID="73efxxxxxxxxxxxxx_TYPE="ext3" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/dm-0: UUID="22a2d704-f75dxxxxxxx595df" SEC_TYPE="ext3" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/dm-1: TYPE="swap" UUID="3b74fxxxxxx411c-8671-2244b8735866"
/dev/sdb1: TYPE="ntfs"
{code}
In the above example, device "/dev/sdb1" contains a NTFS partition.
To mount the NTFS volume according to above example under the /mnt directory:
{code}
sudo mount.ntfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt
{code}
h3. 6) References
http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/NTFS
h3. 6) Notes
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Kind regards and best of luck!
Dude.

I'm afraid there is no general answer. It depends how your device is connected, i.e. internal, usb, etc.?

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HI
a total linux newbie here.
I am running the latest x86_64 oracle linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.4 (Santiago)
I have followed the instructions at : Oracle Linux NTFS how-to
I manage to do :
wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
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however this gives me
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, security
Setting up Install Process
Package fuse-2.8.3-4.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package fuse-ntfs-3g.x86_64 0:2013.1.13-2.el5.rf will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
=========================================================================================================================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=========================================================================================================================================================================================
Installing:
fuse-ntfs-3g x86_64 2013.1.13-2.el5.rf rpmforge 586 k
Transaction Summary
=========================================================================================================================================================================================
Install 1 Package(s)
Total download size: 586 k
Installed size: 1.4 M
Is this ok [y/N]:
Downloading Packages:
http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror1.hs-esslingen.de/repoforge/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
http://be.mirror.eurid.eu/rpmforge/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/dag/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/repoforge/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
http://repository.vsb.cz/mirrors/repoforge/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
http://merlin.fit.vutbr.cz/mirrors/repoforge/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/dag/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
http://mir01.syntis.net/repoforge/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.atrpms.net/repoforge/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.de.leaseweb.net/dag/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/dag/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
http://thammuz.tchpc.tcd.ie/mirrors/ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/dag/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.fairway.ne.jp/dag/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
http://ftp.riken.jp/pub/Linux/dag/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.oscc.org.my/dag/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.nl.leaseweb.net/dag/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
http://archive.cs.uu.nl/mirror/dag.wieers/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
http://ftp.lug.ro/freshrpms/dag/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.awanti.com/rpmforge/dag/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
http://ftp.is.co.za/mirror/ftp.rpmforge.net/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/apt.sw.be/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
http://repoforge.spinellicreations.com/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.teklinks.com/repoforge/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.hmc.edu/repoforge/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.rit.edu/dag/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
http://repoforge.eecs.wsu.edu/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
http://nl.mirror.eurid.eu/rpmforge/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/dag/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror-fpt-telecom.fpt.net/repoforge/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found"
Trying other mirror.
Error Downloading Packages:
fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64: failure: RPMS/fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm from rpmforge: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
Any ideas?

You should get the following output:
[root@vm210 ~]# lsb_release -d
Description:     Oracle Linux Server release 6.4
[root@vm210 ~]#
[root@vm210 ~]# rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
warning: rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 6b8d79e6: NOKEY
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:rpmforge-release       ########################################### [100%]
[root@vm210 ~]# yum install fuse fuse-ntfs-3g
Loaded plugins: security
ol6_UEK_latest                                                                 | 1.2 kB     00:00
ol6_latest                                                                     | 1.4 kB     00:00
ol6_latest/primary                                                             | 26 MB     02:39
ol6_latest                                                                                21127/21127
rpmforge                                                                       | 1.9 kB     00:00
rpmforge/primary_db                                                            | 2.6 MB     00:07
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package fuse.x86_64 0:2.8.3-4.el6 will be installed
---> Package fuse-ntfs-3g.x86_64 0:2013.1.13-2.el6.rf will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
======================================================================================================
Package                 Arch              Version                        Repository             Size
======================================================================================================
Installing:
fuse                    x86_64            2.8.3-4.el6                    ol6_latest             71 k
fuse-ntfs-3g            x86_64            2013.1.13-2.el6.rf             rpmforge              483 k
Transaction Summary
======================================================================================================
Install       2 Package(s)
Total download size: 554 k
Installed size: 1.7 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/2): fuse-2.8.3-4.el6.x86_64.rpm                                             | 71 kB     00:00
(2/2): fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm                              | 483 kB     00:01
Total                                                                 160 kB/s | 554 kB     00:03
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum.
Installing : fuse-2.8.3-4.el6.x86_64                                                            1/2
Installing : fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el6.rf.x86_64                                             2/2
Verifying : fuse-ntfs-3g-2013.1.13-2.el6.rf.x86_64                                             1/2
Verifying : fuse-2.8.3-4.el6.x86_64                                                            2/2
Installed:
fuse.x86_64 0:2.8.3-4.el6                  fuse-ntfs-3g.x86_64 0:2013.1.13-2.el6.rf
Complete!Your output:
<pre>
Package fuse-2.8.3-4.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package fuse-ntfs-3g.x86_64 0:2013.1.13-2. el5 .rf will be installed
</pre>
It tells me that you perhaps tried to install the software before finding or following the instructions. If you check the fuse-ntfs-3g package of your output, it belongs to el5, not el6.
I suggest to check /etc/yum.repos.d directory. It seems you have enabled or installed the wrong yum software repository from the rpmforge source.
To solve your problem, perhaps the following will work:
su - root
yum remove rpmforge-release
cd /etc/yum.repos.d
tar -cf backup.tar ./* --remove-files
wget http://public-yum.oracle.com/public-yum-ol6.repo
wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
yum install fuse fuse-ntfs-3gThe following does not seem absolutely necessary, but might be a good idea:
Once you installed the rpmforge-release package you should be able to use:
yum update rpmforge-release
Loaded plugins: security
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package rpmforge-release.x86_64 0:0.5.2-2.el6.rf will be updated
---> Package rpmforge-release.x86_64 0:0.5.3-1.el6.rf will be an update

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Thanks in advance for any help and hope to get a reply soon :) I need to urgently install Oracle 11gR2 on it.
Edited by: user6582219 on Apr 12, 2012 1:10 AM
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https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/entry/announcing_oracle_database_11g_r2
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Here are my partition details for your reference but as I am planning to do the installation from the scratch following new ideal scheme you can jump to last paragraph following the line "*********************************" for my questions.
Unfortunately my partition plan went wrong and here is what I have now:
Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3d5ba9e1
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 1002047 500000 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 151525080 361253654 104864287+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 1003518 151001087 74998785 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1003520 7002111 2999296 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 7004160 11001855 1998848 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 11003904 51001343 19998720 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 51003392 110041087 29518848 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
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1. Keep the "data" partition (primary) intact and carve an ideal partition layout for both the OS with separate /boot, /tmp, /home, swap (and may be for /usr???). Also may be I can share swap?
2. How do I go about using LVM and is it recommended for this case? What would be ideal locations for each partitions and sizes? I already used 100 GB for "data" so now I want to keep 60 GB for Oracle Linux (and Oracle DB for which I will again make few sub-partitions) and remaining will be for Kubuntu.
Well, I am not sure if this is the right place to ask these questions but since I can see very knowlegeable top contributors here that are willing to help novice users I thought of posting these questions.
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I really need to carefully plan this time because it's third time I am doing reinstallation from the scratch because of poor plan I followed previously.
Thank you very much in advance and please let me know in case more information is needed from my side.
Regards,
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I accidentally downloaded source DVD "Oracle Linux Release 5 Update 2 source - DVD" instead of installable ISO image. Is there anyway I can compile it to make bootable ISO image?Google will be your best friend for such a question, for instance, "Creating a Custom centos Linux bootable ISO Image". There is no need to duplicate the effort. I recommend you download the correct installation DVD, e.g. 5.8
Thing is I already have Oracle Linux 6 Update 2 (the latest) installed on my machine in dual boot mode so I dropped the idea of installing version 5.2. As per the documentation 11gR2 was not certified earlier on Linux 6.2 so I thought of installing 5.2 but it is not necessary now.So you don't need to install 5.2 anymore, but you want the information how to compile a installation DVD from the 5.2 source anyway?!
I have another couple of important questions and need guidance from the experts over here. I am not sure if it is appropriate to open a new thread but for now I am posting them here.Questions may be important for you, but not necessarily for others. No one will complain if you create a new thread for particular questions or subjects. It is better to separate your topics and questions rather than creating a multi-mega thread, which does little to help anyone else but you. It means more work on your end, but it will be easier for anyone to participate or answer your questions, and it will allow you to better award answers.
Regarding your partitioning questions: It is generally difficult to address such topics in a forum. You are asking for a book of information. My advice is to drop the old fashioned concepts of dual or triple boot options and install Oracle VirtualBox instead. It will make all of these questions obsolete and you can use whatever defaults when installing your virtual machine guest OS. Its a far more superior way of dealing with multiple operating systems on one and the same computer.
I am using Ubuntu 11.10 Desktop.
I need to urgently install Oracle 11gR2 on it.For what it's worth, if you can combine the two source below you should be able to install and run 11gR2 on Ubuntu 11.10.
Install Oracle 11gR2 on Ubuntu Linux 11.04 (64-bit) Howto
Install Oracle 11gR2 on Ubuntu Linux 11.04 (64-bit) Howto
Oracle 11gR2 Express Edition on Linux Ubuntu 11.10 howto
Oracle 11gR2 Express Edition on Linux Ubuntu 11.10 howto
However, check out VirtualBox.

How to install oracle 11g on oracle linux 6.1.

Hello everyone here at oracle forum.!
I'm new on using the linux and i badly need to learn it including the Oracle Database for making PHP website.
Because of this i downloaded all the packages of Oracle Linux Release 6 Update 1 Media Pack for x86 (32 bit) at E-Delivery.
Now i was having a hard time figuring out how to install all the 4 ISO images. the only one that worked was was the boot.iso that installed the Oracle Linux 6 without the DB.
So what would i do to use the 3 updates?
I burnt them all one by one on different DVD but it wont look for the other packages.
So please guys bare with me and help me figure out how to use the other 3 packages for i know it has the Oracle Database.
Oracle Linux Release 6 Update 1 source DVD 1 V26570-01
Oracle Linux Release 6 Update 1 source DVD 2 V26571-01
Oracle Linux Release 6 Update 1 Boot iso image for x86 (32 bit) V26573-01

Oracle Linux does not install any Oracle Database. You don't need the source and boot.iso DVD. You can boot and install the system from the Oracle Linux 6.1 installation DVD. The boot.iso is useful for a network install and the source DVD if you want to compile everything yourself.
As far as I know, Oracle Database has not been certified for Oracle Linux 6 yet. That does not necessarily mean you cannot install Oracle Database on Oracle Linux 6 yet, but you will run into problems with software requirements, package dependencies and perhaps incompatibilities, i.e. ext4 file system.
I think your best option is to install Oracle Linux 5 and certainly use Oracle VirtualBox. If you are new to Linux you probably cannot use Linux as your primary OS yet, and VirtualBox will allow you to install and re-install without jeopardizing your primary host OS. You can also download pre-build virtual machines for Virtualbox from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/developer-vm/index.html which might have everything you need installed and ready to use.

How to use LDAP authentication in Oracle Linux

Hi All,
In Oracle Linux 2.6.18-194 el5, goes to system->Administration->Authentication, enabled LDAP in both User Information and Authentication, tried to use network user account information to log in the linux machine but it did not work.
The login screen waits over 10 minutes after enter username and password each and then says usename and password is not corrent.
LDAP Settings only asked two information LDAP Search Base on and LDAP Server. We have another application which uses same LDAP server works fine.
How to make Oracle linux server as LDAP client for user longin?
Tanks in advance for yur help.

I have no idea, but you might find it helpful to read Redhat's documentation concerning this subject:
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Deployment_Guide/ch-ldap.html

Excel import on Oracle Linux - How to create an ODBC Connection

Hi,
We have Oracle BI EE on Oracle Linux. We need to create an ODBC DNS and import tables to Admin tool.
How would you create a ODBC connection inside Linux to Microsoft excel file using unixodbc. What drivers we need.
Please let us know.
Thanks!
Nilaksha.

See this post here: Re: [NQODBC][SQL_STATE: HY000][nQSError: 100[nQSError: 43093][nQSError: 16023]
You need to find an Excel ODBC driver for Linux. The ones that come with OBIEE won't read Excel as far as I know.
For info on creating an ODBC connection for OBIEE on Linux check the manual or search this forum. You don't need unixodbc for it.

Where to download and how to install X Window System for Oracle Linux 5 ?

Folks,
Hello. I am using Oracle Linux 5 and Oracle Database 11g for PIA.
Before install Oracle DB 11g into Oracle Linux 5, we need to install X Window System according to the document page 2 http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/install.111/b32285.pdf
But I don't know where to download and how to install X Window System for Oracle Linux 5.
Can any folk provide a link to download X Window System and tutorial to install it for Oracle Linux 5 ?

You can address the problem in a number of different ways.
You can install X-windows from the installation DVD or setup access to the Oracle public software repository as described in http://public-yum.oracle.com. In which case, the command to install X-windows is: yum groupinstall "X Window System"
Or, you login remotely and and use SSH with X-forwarding, in which case the software on the server will use the X-Windows server on your client system. This is probably the preferred way since you do not have X-windows installed on the server. For more details about SSH forwarding and howto, please see Install Oracle 11gR2 on Ubuntu Linux 11.04 (64-bit) Howto part 2 Oracle Universal Installer.

How can I install kornshell in Oracle Linux no using yum?

I have a VM with Oracle Linux. with no internet access and I need to install korn shell. How can I do it no using yum?

I really would like to use YUM to install, but my VM is not accessing the internet. I browsed the repository (Index of /repo/OracleLinux/OL6/3/base/x86_64/) and found out the right file.
Thanks for your help!

How to see new disk in oracle linux 5

Dear,
i am using oracle VM and created 2 guest OS (both Olx5) i also created a shared disk and assigned to both linux servers.
question: how can i see the disk in each server. using fdisk -l it just shown the one there before.
in HPUX we have ioscan to detect new devices. is there away to check for new disk in oracle linux.
Thanks in advance.
Tom

fdisk -l shows only existing partitions. So if your new disk has not partition created it will be not shown in the output.
AFAIK there is not such command which will list all devices but there are several ways how to find the devices. All informations you can find in /proc directory (fdisk -l reads /proc/partitions when device is not passed as argument).
You can find devices (local disks) for example using following commands (hope it helps):
cat /var/log/dmesg |egrep 'sd[a-z]: s|hd[a-z]: h'
cat /proc/diskstats |egrep -v 'ram|fd'|awk {'print $3'}

How to install Oracle 9i on Oracle Linux?

I'm an experienced professional on Microsoft Technologies.
I need to learn Oracle 9i running on Linux in the next months.
So, I installed Oracle Linux on a VMware Virtual Machine.
When I tried to start the installation of Oracle 9i, I got the following error message:
"../jre/bin/i386/native_threads/java: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
How to fix this?
Thanks!!!
Felipe

This is exactly the documentation I was following.
The first problem is that I'm using Oracle Linux Enterprise Release 5 and I don't know what Red Hat version is similar. This link mentions only Red Hat distributions.
When I faced the problem, I saw the explanation from that link, where I should install the compat-libstdc++ RPM. For Red Hat 9, I should run:
rpm -ivh compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.118.i386.rpm
What should I run on Oracle Linux Enterprise Release 5?

How to connect Oracle Linux 6 on vmware without GUI

Hi Guys,
I've setup Oracle Linux 6 as Vmware Guest (on External Driver) and Windows 7 as Host. And I'm running Oracle EBS R12 on Linux.
When I'm login to VMWare the Linux starts up with GUI which is just a waste of resources.
Please let me know how can I run the Linux 6 in text mode on VMWare.
Regards
Vijay

VijayDhapola wrote:
Hi Guys,
I've setup Oracle Linux 6 as Vmware Guest (on External Driver) and Windows 7 as Host. And I'm running Oracle EBS R12 on Linux.
When I'm login to VMWare the Linux starts up with GUI which is just a waste of resources.
Please let me know how can I run the Linux 6 in text mode on VMWare.
Regards
Vijay
In addition to Dude's comments ... it sounds like you are connecting to your vm machine via the vmware console. Personally, I treat that console just like I treat the console on my physical servers in my data center. That is, I don't run down to the data center whenever I need to log on to a linux server. That's what remote console programs such as putty are for. I have a suite of 10 linux vm's on my Win7 desktop, and one of my 4 "Prime Directives" is that I access them using exactly the same Windows desktop tools I use to access my physical servers.

How to Install Xvfb on oracle linux 6.5

Dear,
I wanted to run Autovue on oracle linux, so that needs the first run Xvfb.
How can I install and run Xvfb o oracle Linux 6.5?
Best regards,
Saeed.

If the problem is only to install Xvfb, you can do that doing the following:
# yum list "*xvfb*"
Available Packages
xorg-x11-server-Xvfb.x86_64 1.15.0-22.el6 public_ol6_latest
# yum install xorg-x11-server-Xvfb

How to install graphical desktop interface on Oracle linux server 6.2

Hi
I have installed Oracle Linux server 6.2 how i install graphical desktop interface on server class installation

If this is in the very early stage I suggest to re-install the OS.
Look out for the window to select the set of software to install. Leave Basic Server selected, but choose the Customize now ratio button. Select the Desktops group on the left side of the window. Choose at least the X Window System, Fonts and Desktop packages. To get a similar Desktop like in previous Enterprise Linux releases, add also the General Purpose Desktop and Graphical Administration Tools packages

How to install Rabbitvcs on Oracle Linux

I've downloaded VM image from Oracle and now try to install Rabbitvcs on it. I've followed instructions from Rabbitvcs for RHEL client but it is not working. Anyone who have make this work?

There is so little information in this post, I have no idea where to start. Let's try:
Which VM did you download?
Which instructions did you follow?
How exactly is it not working?
I just fired up one of my local Oracle Linux 6 VMs that has EPEL configured, ran yum install rabbitvcs*, logged out and back in again and it worked just fine.

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