In some OS version the Oracle Universal Installer will fail with verification of OS. You can by pass this failure with the -ignoresysprereqs tag while execution runInstaller. The following procedure demonstrates the use of this tag.

1. Move to the location of you Oracle binary installer files in this case we have stored our Oracle binaries under /opt/oracle/software/linux/10.2.0.1/database

cd /opt/oracle/software/hp/10.2.0.1/database

2. List the files located under this directory.

myhpux:> ls
doc response stage
install runInstaller welcome.html
myhpux:>

3. If you are performing a remote installation, insure to set your display variable to the appropriate IP address of you client machine. Example: If my client machines IP is 192.168.0.110

myhpux:> export DISPLAY=192.168.0.110:0.0

4. Execute the runInstaller shell script to begin your installation.

myhpux:> ./runInstaller
Starting Oracle Universal Installer…

Checking operating system version: must be B.11.23. Actual B.11.31
Failed < <<< Exiting Oracle Universal Installer, log for this session can be found at /tmp/OraInstall2010-03-21_08-25-19AM/installActions2010-03-21_08-25-19AM.log mylinux:>

5. NOTE: The installer has failed with with an OS verification error, even though the OS is a higher level then required.

6. Re-execute the runInstaller shell script with the tag -ignoresysprereqs and the Oracle Universal Installer will start as normal.

myhpux:> ./runInstaller -ignoresysprereqs
Starting Oracle Universal Installer…

Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from
/tmp/OraInstall2010-03-21_08-54-42AM. Please wait …myhpux:> Oracle Universal
Installer, Version 10.2.0.1.0 Production
Copyright (C) 1999, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.

The OUI (Oracle Universal Installer) ignores the OS version and starts up normally to complete your Oracle installation.

Larry J Catt, OCP 9i, 10g
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