CHAPTER 3Oracle Installation
Even a basic database system installation requires some planning and preparation. You need to plan for both the hardware and software, including which components you will install. You need to prepare by validating that the prerequisites are in place, creating the users, and determining the required steps. You must consider the operating system version as well as platform. Oracle supports Windows and various flavors of Unix and Linux, so you have several operating system options.
Having checklists and using available scripts to check prerequisites will make the installation process more consistent and repeatable. The Oracle installer does run a check, but it is easier to have this check pass than to wait for this step ...
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