ORACLE 11gR2 INSTALLATION ON RHEL 5.6 USING VMWARE WORKSTATION-Silent Mode

This kind of Installation takes place in two major situations that are

1. When GUI installation is not supported 
2. When softwate need to be installed remotely

Here also We take all the steps what we see in GUI mode installation except RDBMS installation step

• Download  Oracle DB Server  and  Prepare it to Install
• Checking OS level Requirements
• Kernel Parameters Setup
• Security Limits Setup
• RPM Packages Installation for Oracle
• USERS  and  GROUPS creation 
• Directories  and  Permissions  setup

Follow all the above steps as in GUI mode Installation

Now We have to go for database folder which contains the Oracle DB Server to install the RDBMS software.

$cd /database

$ls

$cd response/ ; $ls


Here you can findout a response file named as

custom.rsp       ==>   if it is Oracle 10g software

db_install.rsp   ==>   if it is Oracle 11g software


Duplicate that file as shown below

$cp db_install.rsp  dummy.rsp
$wc -l dummy.rsp


$vi dummy.rsp

  #(Keep all other parameters and change only the these specified parameters values as below )

      UNIX_GROUP_NAME = "oinstall"

      ORACLE_HOM,E = "/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1"

      ORACLE_HOME_NAME = "orclInstall"

      INSTALL_TYPE = "EE"

      S_nameForDBAGrp = "dba"

      S_nameForOPERGrp = "oinstall"

      varselect = 3

:wq!


Here "varselect" parameter has three different values as

1  -  for DATABASE Installation

2  -  for ASM Instance Installation

3  -  Install Oracle Software Only



$ cd ..

$pwd

  (Now we are in database/ directory)

$. ./runInstaller --help

$. ./runInstaller  -silent  -responseFile  "<response file path>"

$. ./runInstaller  -silent  -responseFile  "</opt/database/response/dummy.rsp>" 

Now press the ENTER key and then starts the process of Oracle DB Server Installation.



Finally, after completion of all process, The Oracle DB Server software is intalled on your Operating System.

If you want to check the software is installed or not, go with the same steps in GUI mode specified


#find  /  -name  oraInst*