<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Get Oracle 9i</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Oracle 9i under Fedora Core 3 - Installation HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="1. Introduction" HREF="sect_01.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Prepare for Configuration" HREF="sect_03.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Oracle 9i under Fedora Core 3 - Installation HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="sect_01.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="sect_03.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="sect_02" ></A >2. Get Oracle 9i</H1 ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="sect_02_01" ></A >2.1. CD Installation</H2 ><P >If you got Oracle 9i on a CD then mount it:</P ><P ><B CLASS="command" >mount <TT CLASS="option" >-r -o loop=/dev/loop0</TT > <TT CLASS="filename" >ora9id1.iso Disk1/</TT ></B > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="sect_02_02" ></A >2.2. Download</H2 ><P >Otherwise download it from <A HREF="http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/oracle9i/htdocs/linuxsoft.html" TARGET="_top" >http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/oracle9i/htdocs/linuxsoft.html</A >.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="sect_02_03" ></A >2.3. Install</H2 ><P >Extract all three files:</P ><P ><B CLASS="command" >gunzip <TT CLASS="filename" >ship_9204_linux_disk1.cpio.gz</TT ></B > </P ><P ><B CLASS="command" >cpio <TT CLASS="option" >-idmv -I</TT > <TT CLASS="filename" >ship_9204_linux_disk1.cpio</TT ></B > </P ><P >Don't forget the <TT CLASS="option" >-I</TT > option or you will get errors during the extraction.</P ><P >This command will expand the cpio archive to the <TT CLASS="filename" >Disk1</TT > directory. Repeat the process for the other two archives.</P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sect_01.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sect_03.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >1. Introduction</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Prepare for Configuration</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >