Owner's Manual
Deployment Guide 41
Reinstalling the Software
NOTICE: Reinstalling the software erases all information on the hard drives.
NOTICE: You must disconnect all external storage from the system before you reinstall the software.
NOTICE: Dell recommends that you perform regular backups of your database and individual nodes so
that you do not lose valuable data. Reinstall the node software only as a last resort.
Installing the software using the
Dell Deployment
CD created a redeployment partition on your
hard drive that contains all of the software images that were installed on your system. The
redeployment partition allows for quick redeployment of the Oracle software.
Reinstalling the software by using this method requires that you boot the system to the
redeployment partition. When the system boots to this partition, it automatically reinstalls
the Red Hat Linux operating system.
To reinstall software using this method, perform the following steps:
1
Disconnect the external storage.
2
Log in as
root
on the system on which you want to reinstall the software.
3
Ty p e :
fdisk /dev/sda
4
When prompted for a command within the
fdisk
program, type
a.
5
When prompted for a partition number, type
2
.
6
When prompted for a command, again type
a
.
7
When prompted for another partition number, type
3
.
8
When prompted for a command, type
d
.
9
When prompted for a partition number, type
4
.
10
When prompted for a command, again type
d
.
11
When prompted for a partition number, type
3
.
12
When prompted for a command, list the partitions by typing
p
.
Only the
/dev/sda2
partition is present; it is preceded by an asterisk.
13
When again prompted for a command, type
w
.
14
When the Linux command prompt appears, reboot your system.
Reinstallation completes automatically and the Linux operating system reboots and presents
a login prompt.
For information about configuring the system for use, see "Configuring Red Hat Enterprise Linux"
on page 8 and continue through the remaining sections to reconfigure your system.