[Centos] Installing Oracle fails on CentOS 4

[asparks at quris.com (Alan Sparks)]

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 07:40, Lothar Joeckel wrote:
> Starting Oracle Universal Installer...
> Checking installer requirements...
> Checking operating system version: must be redhat-2.1, redhat-3,
> SuSE-9, SuSE-8 or UnitedLinux-1.0
>                                       Failed <<<<


As suggested on page http://www.puschitz.com/InstallingOracle10g.shtml
you need to change the redhat-release file to fool the installer.

su - root
cp /etc/redhat-release /etc/redhat-release.backup
cat > /etc/redhat-release << EOF
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon)
EOF