Infrastructure Software

Hello

Here are the steps that I took:

1) First I went to Oracle.com and download “Oracle Enterprise Unbreakable Linux” (32bit configuration) and installed it. I am mulitbooting Windows and Linux so the boot menu shows 2 types of Oracle:
Enterprise (2.6.9-55.0.0.02.ELsmp)
Enterprise-up (2.6.9-55.0.0.02.EL)
Note: I don’t know the difference between the two so I usually select into the
first one which is Enterprise (2.6.9-55.0.0.02.ELsmp).
2) Next I went to Oracle.com and downloaded the Oracle’s database software which is 3 CD’s:
ship_9204_linux_disk1.cpio
ship_9204_linux_disk2.cpio
ship_9204_linux_disk3.cpio
3) Next I mounted the CD’s and copied them to a directory named “oradisks” in
the root directory.
4) Next I gunzipped the 3 CD’s
5) The first CD I gunzipped created a directory named “Disk1” which contains 5
directories named:
doc
install
lgto
response
stage
the CD also created 2 files in the Disk1 directory named:
index.htm
runInstaller
6) The second CD I gunzipped created a directory named “Disk2” which contained
a directory named:
stage
The third CD I gunzipped created a directory named “Disk3” which contained a
directory named:
stage
7) Now the /oradisks directory contains the three directories Disk1, Disk2 and
Disk3. However, the only files it contains are ship_9204_linux_disk2.cpio
ship_9204_linux_disk3.cpio because ship_9204_linux_disk1.cpio is no
longer there (apparently it is expanded by gunzip).
8) Next I su the root and create the groups and users
9) Next I update /etc/sysctl.conf and /etc/limits.conf files
10) Next I create my “.profile” file
11) Next I run the command:
rpm –qa –qf ‘%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n’ |
egrep ‘compat|glibc|gcc’ | sort
After running this command the screen displays all of the packages. However,
“binuitls.-2.15.92.0.2-21” is not listed.
Furthermore when I run the command:
“rpm –ivh compat-db-4listed.
Furthermore when I run the command:
“rpm –ivh compat-db-4.1.25-9.i386.rpm” or any variation of that filename from any directory I get the message:
"error: open of compat-db-4.1.25-9 "failed no such file or directory"

Therefore as you can see any this is my first time dealing with Oracle Enterprise Unbreakable Linux so I don’t know anything about any other versions or why what I am doing should not work. Consequently I am asking:

What do I have to do at this point to install Oracle successfully and where to get the missing “binuitls.-2.15.92.0.2-21” file?

What is the difference between:
Enterprise (2.6.9-55.0.0.02.ELsmp)
and
Enterprise-up (2.6.9-55.0.0.02.EL)

Note: There are no CD’s that have directories that say “/Enterprise/RPM/”