For installing Oracle 10.1.0.3 on FC3: 1. Setup kernel parameters: insert in file /etc/sysctl.conf kernel.shmmax = <half of memory in bytes> kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128 fs.file-max = 65536 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000 Execute: /sbin/sysctl -p insert in file /etc/security/limits.conf * soft nproc 2047 * hard nproc 16384 * soft nofile 1024 * hard nofile 65536 insert in file /etc/pam.d/login before line session required pam_selinux.so multiple open session required pam_limits.so 2. Create the new groups and users: groupadd oinstall groupadd dba useradd -g oinstall -G dba oracle passwd oracle 3. Create the directories in which the Oracle software will be installed: mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.0 chown -R oracle.oinstall /u01 4. Edit the /etc/redhat-release file replacing the current release information with the following: redhat-3 5. Login as the oracle user and add the following lines at the end of the .bash_profile file: # Oracle Settings export TMP=/tmp export TMPDIR=$TMP export ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle export ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/10.1.0 export ORACLE_SID=sid1 export ORACLE_TERM=xterm export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:/usr/sbin:$PATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export CLASSPATH=$ORACLE_HOME/jdbc/lib/ojdbc14.jar: $ORACLE_HOME/jdbc/lib/orai18n.jar 6. Installation Log into the oracle user. Start the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) by issuing the following command in the Disk1 directory: ./runInstaller All sould work.