Resolving The Problem

From the error message above, you can see that the Oracle requires a minimum swap space of 2.97GB (31132520KB).

Hence, to create a swap file with this space, you first need to define to a count.

Simply divide the 2.97GB by 1024 to get the count in MB. So this works out to 31132520 / 1024 = 3041 (rounded up)

Use this count value of '3041' in the dd command as follows.

dd if =/dev/zero of=/oraswap bs=1M count=3041

This command creates an input file (if) initialized to zero and an external output swap file (of) /oraswap. The "bs" indicates byte size and the count is 3041 (rounded up.) This dd command with the above parameters will create the /oraswap swap space file.

(Note: The dd command will take approximately 2 minutes to complete and will create a file called "/oraswap" in your / directory.)

Once the /oraswap swap file has been created, you need to use the mkswap command and then the swapon command to tell Oracle to use the /oraswap swap file as follows:

mkswap /oraswap

swapon /oraswap

Now do a "ls -ltr" in the / directory and you'll see the /oraswap file. Note the byte size of the file. This is the swap space that Oracle uses during the installation. You can also do the "df -h" or "free" commands to see the space available with the swap turned on.

Now that you have the swap space file created successfully, you can continue installing the Oracle database software and you should get past this error in the GUI.