[Centos] Installing Oracle fails on CentOS 4

[etoczek at installs.com (Eric Toczek)]

Lothar Joeckel wrote:
> Hi,
> i try to install Oracle 10g on CentOS4 but the installer (runInstaller)
> fails with:
> 
> 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 <<<<
> 

What you have to do is edit the /etc/redhat-release file and change it to:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon)

then run the installer again.


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