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When installed, the Oracle Preinstallation RPM does the following: ✑ As needed, sets sysctl.conf settings, system startup parameters, and driver parameters to values based on recommendations from the Oracle Preinstallation RPM program - ✑ Creates an oracle user, and creates the oraInventory (oinstall) and OSDBA (dba) groups for that user ✑ Automatically downloads and installs any additional RPM packages needed for installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Database, and resolves any dependencies ✑ Sets hard and soft resource limits ✑ Sets other recommended parameters, depending on your kernel version Note: The Oracle RPMs for your Oracle Linux distributions and Oracle RDBMS releases automatically install any additional packages needed for installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Database, and configure your server operating system automatically, including setting kernel parameters and other basic operating system requirements for installation. References: https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/LADBI/pre_install.htm#LADBI7493