<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Prepare for Configuration</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="Get Oracle 9i" HREF="sect_02.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Set Environment Variables" HREF="sect_04.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_02.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="sect_04.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="sect_03" ></A >3. Prepare for Configuration</H1 ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="sect_03_01" ></A >3.1. Create Users and Groups</H2 ><P >Execute the following commands as <EM >root</EM >:</P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="screen" > # groupadd oinstall # groupadd dba # groupadd oper # groupadd apache # useradd -g oinstall -G dba oracle # passwd oracle </PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >Set the password for user <EM >oracle</EM >.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect2" ><H2 CLASS="sect2" ><A NAME="sect_03_02" ></A >3.2. Create Directories</H2 ><P >The final destination of the software will be here:</P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="screen" > # mkdir /u01 /u02 # chown oracle.dba /u01 /u02 # chmod 755 /u01 /u02 </PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></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_02.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_04.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Get Oracle 9i</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Set Environment Variables</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >