Up2date from red Hat to Oracle linux

Hello,
i am using Red Hat Enterprise linux release 3 update 7 and we bought network support from oracle and the minimum requires:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Oracle's up2date program will allow you to switch to ULN if you are running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 8 or later.
Mine is update 7 so it does not work,
can someone has a work around for this problem.
Thanks,
Tom

Thanks Ice for the reply.
i do not have support with RedHat anymore and Oracle came back and said update 7 would work also, but istill have problem and working with them now.
Thanks again
Tom

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o     Choose the time settings that are appropriate for your area. Setting the system clock to UTC is usually a good practice for servers. To do so, click on System clock uses UTC.
14.     Set Root Password
o     Enter a password for root, and enter it again to confirm.
15.     Package Group Selection
o     Select only the package sets shown here. Leave all others unselected.
o     Desktop
- X Window System
- Gnome
- KDE
- See my comments in the RHES 2.1 section regarding choice of GUI.
o     Applications
- Editors
- Graphical Internet
o     Servers
- Do not select anything in this group.
o     Development
- Development Tools
o     System
- Administration Tools
o     Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Do not select anything in this group.
o     Miscellaneous
- Legacy Software Development
o     Click on Next to proceed.
16.     About to Install
o     Click on Next.
17.     Installing Packages
o     Software will be copied to the hard disk and installed. Change disks as prompted, and click on Next when the installation is complete.
18.     Graphical Interface (X) Configuration
o     Accept the defaults unless the installer does not recognize your video card. If your video card is not recognized, you will not be able to continue.
19.     Monitor Configuration
o     Accept the default if the installer correctly identifies your monitor. Otherwise, select a compatible monitor from the list.
20.     Customize Graphical Configuration
o     Accept the defaults.
21.     Congratulations
o     Remove the installation media from the system, and click on Next.
22.     The system automatically reboots and presents a new welcome screen.
o     Click on Next.
23.     License Agreement
o     Read the license agreement. If you agree to the terms, select Yes, I agree to the License Agreement and click on Next.
24.     Date and Time
o     Set the Date and Time.
o     If you want to use an NTP server (recommended), select Enable Network Time Protocol and enter the name of the NTP server.
25.     User Account
o     Create an account for yourself.
o     Do not create an account for oracle at this time. Creating the oracle account is covered later in this section.
26.     Red Hat Network
o     If you want to use or activate your Red Hat Network account now, accept the default, click on Next, and follow the product activation instructions that accompanied your Red Hat product.
27.     Additional CDs
o     Click on Next.
28.     Finish Setup
o     Click on Next.
29.     A graphical login screen appears.
30.     Congratulations! Your Linux software is now installed.
End of OTN Note
Now just install compat-db-4.0.14-5.i386.rpm
Gnome-libs-1.4.1.2.90-34.1.i386.rpm
Libpng10-1.0.13-8.i386.rpm
ORBit-0.5.17-10.4.i386.rpm
Install patch 3006854
Copy libcwait.so file from /etc to /lib
And make links
mv /usr/bin/gcc     /usr/bin/gcc323
mv /usr/bin/g++     /usr/bin/g++323
ln âsf /usr/bin/gcc296     /usr/bin/gcc
ln âsf /usr/bin/g++296     /usr/bin/g++
Kernel Settings as per requirement of ORACLE AS 10g in /etc/sysctl.conf
kernel.shmall = 2097152
kernel.shmmax = 2147483648
kernel.shmmni = 4096
kernel.sem = 256 65000 200 256
fs.file-max = 131072
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000
kernel.msgmnb=65556
kernel.msgmni=4096
Then restart the computer
Login with Oracle user
now path setting as
I have done this by make two environment files
Infra.env
TMP=/tmp
Export TMP
TMPDIR=$TMP
Export TMPDIR
ORACLE_BASE=/oracle
Export ORACLE_BASE
ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/appsrv/infra
Export ORACLE_HOME
ORACLE_SID=asdb     (if u will not define SID here then while starting database u will face an error ORA-07217:sltn:environment variable cannot be evaluated)
Export ORACLE_SID
PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
Export PATH
PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin     (u can include command paths like dcm as u needed)
Export PATH
LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19
Export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL
Copy this file with name as.env and change ORACLE_HOME from infra to as.
. ./infra.env
DISPLAY=localhost:0.0; export DISPLAY
Xhost +
Now u can check that DISPLAY is ok by run the command xclock if clock appears then ok else set DISPLAY with root user ok
Start installation from CD 1 .
. ./runInstaller
Press Y               (There is no need to disturb, upgrade, degrade any package)
Press Y
Installation will start while installing and reaches at ~50% then go to /oracle/appsrv/infra/bin open relink file and change at line # 50 i.e. remove 2 brackets
] âo [ and at line # 102 make= /usr/ccs/bin/make to /usr/bin/make remove ccs and save the file
There will no error in installation in infrastructure
Same as done with relink file in Middle tier installation. I would like to turn ur attention for a serious problem no one asked about it. Here u have seen that a script make 3 file in /usr/local/bin for infrastructure and middle tier when u finished infrastructureâs installation plz rename that 3 files as
Mv coredb coredb-infra
Mv dbhome dbhome-infra
Mv ora     â¦     oraâ¦-infra
If u overwrite that files by creating same name of middle tier files no problem.
When problem comes?
AS will work fine but when u have to install patches on AS then problem comes if u have overwrite that files. So plz rename them before creation of same files of middle tier. Thanx
Zeeshan
@CES
[email protected]

Hi,
I tried uname -a and it returns the following:
Linux NLABLINUX 2.4.21-20.EL.c0 #1 Thu Sep 9 02:07:03 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
We have the following problems:
1. I am having a box running RHEL 3.0 (got from centos.org). I have Oracle 10g running ok. Now I tried to install ASMLIB downloaded from technet. The files are:
rpm -Uvh oracleasm-2.4.21-EL-1.0.3-1.i686.rpm \
     oracleasmlib-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm \
     oracleasm-support-1.0.3-1.i386.rpm \
When I tried to install these files, I got the following error:
Checking for Red Hat enterprise kernel: [FAILED]
Also when I try to run /etc/init.d/oracleasm , I get the same error
Checking for Red Hat enterprise kernel: [FAILED]
2. We created 4 raw partitions /dev/raw/raw1 - 4 using raw command.
[root@rcdell root]# ls -l /dev/raw/raw[1,2,3,4]
crw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 162, 1 Sep 9 11:05 /dev/raw/raw1
crw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 162, 2 Sep 9 11:05 /dev/raw/raw2
crw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 162, 3 Sep 9 11:05 /dev/raw/raw3
crw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 162, 4 Sep 9 11:05 /dev/raw/raw4
then tried this:
SYS at +ASM on 29-DEC-04 >create diskgroup dg1 normal redundancy
2 failgroup c1 disk '/dev/raw/raw1'
3 failgroup c2 disk '/dev/raw/raw2';
create diskgroup dg1 normal redundancy
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [kfdsk::grpmatch], [1],
[3939617408], [], [], [], [], []
ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [kfgrpJoin2], [5], [], [], [], [],
ORA-15076: Emulating I/O errors on the OSM disk
ORA-15076: Emulating I/O errors on the OSM disk
ORA-15076: Emulating I/O errors on the OSM disk
ORA-15076: Emulating I/O errors on the OSM disk
Any help is appreciated.
Irshad A. Buchh
Senior Principal Consultant

Up2date from red Hat to Oracle linux

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