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Oracle Express Edition can be distributed and can be used to provide third party demonstration and training. (all the above information is taken from  oracle.com ) Prerequisites Software: VMware Workstation ( VMware Workstation Link ) Oracle Enterprise Linux ( Oracle Enterprise Linux Link ) Oracle Database ( Oracle Database Link ) In this guide the below software versions are used:  VMware Workstation v10.0.0 Oracle Enterprise Linux v5.7 x86-64 Oracle Database Express Edition 11g R2 for Linux x86-64 Installation of VMware Workstation and OEL is not covered in this guide because it is straightforward. Just install them, start them. ( Notice that during the installation of OEL you must check oracle-validated-1.1.* package in system tools ) To install Oracle Database Express Edition: Log in as root user and run the executable 'oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm' You must run '/etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure' as the root user to configure the database. ...

Adding IP address in Oracle Linux can be done by editing the network-scripts. While this procedure is tested on Oracle Linux, i'm sure it should work on  Redhat Enterprise Linux and other versions of Redhat . Editing network - scripts    The network interface configuration files are found in the directory:     /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/   To add an IP address to an interface eth0  # cd  /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/  # vi ifcfg-eth0   Enter the below parameters for static configuration   DEVICE="eth0"  BOOTPROTO="static"  BROADCAST="192.168.2.255"  HWADDR="00:0C:29:DS:22:26"  IPADDR="192.168.2.2"  NETMASK="255.255.255.0"    NETWORK="192.168.2.0"     ONBOOT="yes"  TYPE="Ethernet"   Save the file by typing  ESC :wq   R estart the network service for the changes to take effect.    # service network restart