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I installed Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.4 a few weeks ago in a VirtualBox virtual machine…I just didn’t have the inclination to install the database.
Way back in June, I installed VirtualBox, OEL (5.3), 11gR1 and ApEx. To do that, I followed this guide on OTN by John Smiley (thanks John!). This time, I was going to try to do it from the docs. I can’t say it was easy to read, so I was back at John’s article before to long.
First up was preparing OEL for the database install. This included setting up kernel parameters and loading

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