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Chapter 30. Preparing Red Hat Enterprise Linux for an Oracle Database Installation

This chapter will guide you though the pre-installation procedures for installing Oracle 9i on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Download Oracle9i for Linux from http://otn.oracle.com/software/products/oracle9i/htdocs/linuxsoft.html.
Here are two methods for unpacking the Oracle installation files, choose one. First method - this method uses less disk space and should be faster: 
zcat lnx_920_disk1.cpio.gz | cpio -idmv
zcat lnx_920_disk2.cpio.gz | cpio -idmv
zcat lnx_920_disk3.cpio.gz | cpio -idmv
Second method - this method first uncompresses then unpacks the installation files: 
gunzip lnx_920_disk1.cpio.gz lnx_920_disk2.cpio.gz lnx_920_disk3.cpio.gz Linux9i_Disk3.cpio.gz

cpio -idmv < lnx_920_disk1.cpio
cpio -idmv < lnx_920_disk2.cpio
cpio -idmv < lnx_920_disk3.cpio
You should now have 3 directories containing installation files, if ls looks like this it worked correctly: 
$ ls
Disk1
Disk2
Disk3
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