The following download procedures only need to be performed on one node in the cluster!

The next logical step is to install Oracle Clusterware Release 2 (10.2.0.1.0), Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2.0.1.0), and finally the Oracle Database 10g Companion CD Release 2 (10.2.0.1.0) for Linux x86 software. However, you must first download and extract the required Oracle software packages from OTN.

You will be downloading and extracting the required software from Oracle to only one of the Linux nodes in the cluster—namely, linux1. You will perform all installs from this machine. The Oracle installer will copy the required software packages to all other nodes in the RAC configuration we set up.

Login to one of the nodes in the Linux RAC cluster as the oracle user account. In this example, you will be downloading the required Oracle software to linux1 and saving them to /u01/app/oracle/orainstall.

Downloading and Extracting the Software

First, download the Oracle Clusterware Release 2 (10.2.0.1.0), Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2.0.1.0), and Oracle Database 10g Companion CD Release 2 (10.2.0.1.0) software for Linux x86. All downloads are available from the same page.

As the oracle user account, extract the three packages you downloaded to a temporary directory. In this example, we will use /u01/app/oracle/orainstall.

Extract the Oracle Clusterware package as follows:

# su - oracle
$ cd ~oracle/orainstall
$ unzip 10201_clusterware_linux32.zip

$ cd ~oracle/orainstall
$ unzip 10201_database_linux32.zip

$ cd ~oracle/orainstall
$ unzip 10201_companion_linux32.zip