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Installing Oracle Software

and Creating Oracle Database 10g

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 Objectives

After completing this lesson, you should be able to do

the following:
• Plan your installation
• Describe preinstallation tasks
• Install software with Oracle Universal Installer
• Create a database with Oracle Universal Installer

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 Planning Your Installation

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 Checking System Requirements

Hardware:
• 512 MB of physical random access memory
• 1 GB of virtual memory (or twice the size of RAM)
• 100 MB of disk space in the temporary directory
• 1.5 GB of disk space for the Oracle software
• 1.5 GB of disk space for the preconfigured
database
Operating system: 32-bit and 64-bit versions

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 Planning the Setting of
Registry Entries

In Windows, Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) sets

required registry entries to default values. The most
commonly used ones are:
• ORACLE_BASE: Base of the Oracle directory
structure
• ORACLE_HOME: The directory containing the Oracle
software
• ORACLE_SID: The initial instance name
• ORACLE_LANG: The language, territory, and client
character set settings
Customize the relevant settings before installation.

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 Viewing Registry Entries

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 Oracle Universal Installer (OUI)

Provides the following capabilities for software

management and distribution:
• Automatic dependency resolution and complex
logic handling
• Installation from the Web
• Component and suite installations
• Implicit deinstallation
• Support for multiple Oracle homes
• National language support (NLS)/globalization
support
• Support for distributed installations
• Unattended “silent” installations by using
response files

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 Installing the Oracle Software

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 Configuration Assistants

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 Creating a Database with OUI

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 Summary

In this lesson, you should have learned to:

• Plan your installation starting with the appropriate
documentation
• Perform preinstallation tasks, such as checking
system requirements
• Install software with Oracle Universal Installer
• Create a database with OUI configuration assistant

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 Practice Overview:
Installing the Oracle Software

This practice covers the following topics:

• Installing the Oracle software with OUI
• Creating a default starter database named ORCL
• Unlocking the HR schema, which you will use in
the pre-migration and post-migration practice
sessions
• Run e:\labs\soln\sol_02 to stop and start
the DBConsole process

Note: Completing this practice is critical for

all following practice sessions.

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