mount points are partitions on the drive. a typical linux intstallation will have directories like
/
/usr
/var
/home
/tmp
/usr/local
and various others. during the intstallation process, you'll use whatever tool the distribution uses (redhat uses disk druid, or used to anyway, most others use fdisk I think), to partition your drive.
If you have say 6 partitions, an assign each of those directories to a partition, they become a mount point.
Oracle wants 2 mount points, one for the software, and one for the datafiles, control files, log files, etc. You don't really need 2 mount points (I would believe), as much as just 2 seperate directories to put the stuff in. Especially if you're just using it to play around as a test database.
If you already have linux installed, type df, or look at /etc/fstab to see the partitions and where they're mounted. Find a big one, let's say /usr, make a directory called /usr/oracle, and use that for your oracle base. Then make one called /usr/oradata and use that for the rest of the data. Or make any other directories based on how you want to organize it.
If you're installing linux from scratch, you might want the practice of setting things up using oracles optimal flexible architecute (OFA). You can create mount points like
/u01
/u02
/u03
Etc, then follow their guidlines. Pretend each mount point is a different disk (assuming you have only one drive), as it would be in a higher end system, and practice laying everything out correctly.
I'm pretty sure both require x-windows. You'll need to find a windows x-server so you can make an x connection to your client's machine to do the install. There's a small one at [url]http://www.microimages.com/www/html/freestuf/mix/[/url] that has a free version you can use for a while, and I think is only $25 to buy. There's not as many features as some of the larger commercial ones but it should get the job done.
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