Oracle8i Installation Guide
Release 3 (8.1.7) for Alpha OpenVMS
Part Number A86708-01

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Installing Oracle8i Products using Oracle Universal Installer

This chapter describes how to start the Oracle Universal Installer and install Oracle8i products on your system. Review and complete the tasks listed in Chapter 1, "System Requirements" and Chapter 2, "Pre-Installation" before beginning the installation.

Using Oracle Universal Installer

Complete these tasks to start Oracle Universal Installer:

Mount the Oracle8i CD-ROM

Start Oracle Universal Installer

Mount the Oracle8i CD-ROM

Mount the Oracle8i CD-ROM device. For example: 

$ MOUNT/OVERRIDE=IDENTIFICATION <ddcn>:

where:

<ddcn> is a valid CD-ROM device

Start Oracle Universal Installer

Caution:

Do not run the Installer as the SYSTEM user. 

To start the Installer:

  1. Log in as the oracle8 user.

Note:

Should be the same account used if using ORACLEINS.COM installer. 

  1. Start the Installer by entering 

    $@<ddcn>:[OUI]OUI

where <ddcn> is a valid CD-ROM drive.

Once the Installer is started, the Welcome window appears.

  • Normally, we should not need to change the "source" field. This field contains the location of a java archive file called PRODUCTS.JAR, which contains definitions and scripts used to control the installation.

    Note:

    This field is NOT the location of the OpenVMS save sets (*.BCK files) which contain the product object libraries, demos, and other installable files; this information is entered on the next screen. This differs slightly from OUI on non-OpenVMS platforms, for compatibility between OUI and the OpenVMS character based installer, ORACLEINS (see following note for details). 

    Note:

    On non-OpenVMS platforms (on which OUI is now the only supported installer), all object and other product files (for all products) are packaged in PRODUCTS.JAR, as well as the install scripts. To facilitate a smooth transition from ORACLEINS to OUI, Oracle is supporting full compatibility between the two installers, at least for this release. In future releases, the character based installer will be phased out, or modified to use the newer packaging scheme. For compatibility with ORACLEINS, product files continue to be packaged in native OpenVMS BACKUP format, while OUI installation scripts are packaged in PRODUCTS.JAR, so two separate entries will not be necessary. 

    Figure 5-1 Oracle Universal Installer "File Locations" Window

    1. Enter the ORA_ROOT directory path in which to install Oracle8i products in the Destination fields. The default location is the directory pointed to by the OpenVMS logical ORA_ROOT.

      If the destination directory you choose contains Oracle8i Release 3 (8.1.7) software, the older versions of the software will be upgraded to Release 3 (8.1.7). Oracle Corporation recommends that you install Release 3 (8.1.7) products into a new ORA_ROOT.

      Caution:

      If you have an existing ORA_ROOT created with a pre-8.1.x release, you must change the default installation location to a different location. 

      Note:

      If you install Oracle8i into an ORA_ROOT directory that already contains Oracle client software, the listener is not created. To create the listener, install Oracle8i in a different ORA_ROOT. 

    2. Click Next.

      The Available Products window appears.

      Figure 5-2 Oracle Universal Installer "Available Products" Window


    3. Select the Oracle8i installation category you want to install and click Next. See "Product Installation Categories and Installation Types" for a description of each category.

      Note:

      For a list of products installed with each installation type, see the appropriate product section in Appendix A, "Oracle8i Products". 

    4. Proceed to one of the following sections based on the selection you made in step 6.

      If You Selected...  See this Section... 

      Oracle8i Enterprise Edition 

      "Oracle8i Enterprise Edition". 

      Oracle8i Client  

      "Oracle8i Client". 

    Oracle8i Enterprise Edition

    The Installation Types window appears.

    1. Select one of the types of installations and click Next.

    2. Proceed to one of the following sections based on the selection you made in step 1.

      If You Selected...  See this Section... 

      Typical or Minimal 

      "Typical or Minimal". 

      Custom 

      "Custom". 

    Typical or Minimal

    1. Click Next.

      The saveset location window appears. If installing from the CD-ROM, accept the default value. Otherwise, enter the directory path to the location of the product savesets (*.bck files).

    2. Click Next.

      The Global Install Options window appears. Select System or Group Installation. This affects file protections on product installed files. The option 'System' is recommended.

    3. Click Next.

      The RDBMS Options window appears. Enter a 1-6 character identifier for the installed Oracle images. This string is appended to the exe filename to identify a particular installation.

    4. Click Next (for typical install type only).

      The Apache options window appears. Enter a port number between 1 and 65535. Port 80 is the default.

    5. Click Next.

      The Summary window appears.

    6. Click Next to continue.

      The End of Installation window appears.

    7. Click Exit to exit Oracle Universal Installer, or click Next Install to install additional products. Clicking Next Install returns you to the "Oracle Universal Installer "File Locations" Window".

    8. See section "Reviewing a Log of an Installation Session" for information about accessing Oracle Universal Installer log files.

    Custom

    The Available Products window displays all products available for installation.

    1. Select appropriate products to install and click Next.

    2. Provide appropriate responses to any windows that appear.

      The Summary window appears.

    3. Click Install. Wait until the selected products are installed.

      The End of Installation window appears.

    4. Click Exit to exit Oracle Universal Installer or click Next Install to install additional products. Clicking Next Install returns you to the "Oracle Universal Installer "File Locations" Window".

    5. See "Reviewing a Log of an Installation Session" for information about accessing Oracle Universal Installer log files.

    Oracle8i Client

    Note:

    For a list of products installed with each installation type, see the appropriate product section in Appendix A, "Oracle8i Products". 

    The Installation Types window appears.

    1. Select the Oracle installation type you want to install and click Next.

    2. Proceed to one of the following sections based on the selection you made in step 1.

      If You Selected...  See this Section... 

      Administrator, Programmer, or Application User 

      "Administrator, Programmer or Application User". 

      Custom 

      "Custom". 

    Administrator, Programmer or Application User

    1. Click Next.

      The Summary window appears.

    2. Review the information to ensure that you have enough disk space. You cannot make any product or space allocation changes once the installation begins

    3. Click Install. Wait until the selected products are installed.

      The End of Installation window appears.

    4. Click Exit to exit Oracle Universal Installer, or click Next Install to install additional products. Clicking Next Install returns you to the "Oracle Universal Installer "File Locations" Window".

    5. See "Reviewing a Log of an Installation Session" for information about accessing Oracle Universal Installer log files.

    Custom

    The Available Products window displays all products available for installation.

    1. Select appropriate products to install and click Next.

    2. Provide appropriate responses to any windows that appear.

      The Summary window appears.

    3. Review the information to ensure that you have enough disk space. You cannot make any product or space allocation changes once the installation begins

    4. Click Install. Wait until the selected products are installed.

      The End of Installation window appears.

    5. Click Exit to exit Oracle Universal Installer, or click Next Install to install additional products. Clicking Next Install returns you to the "Oracle Universal Installer "File Locations" Window".

    6. See section "Reviewing a Log of an Installation Session" for information about accessing Oracle Universal Installer log files.

    Reviewing a Log of an Installation Session

    The Installer creates the orainventory directory the first time it is run to keep an inventory of products that it installs on your system as well as other installation information. The location of orainventory is defined.

    Do not delete or manually alter the orainventory directory or its contents. Doing so can prevent the Installer from locating products that you install on your system.

    The latest log file is disk:[<orainventory>.logs]installActions.log. Log file names of previous installation sessions take the form installActionsdatetime.log. For example:
    installActions1999-07-14_09-00-56-am.log

    Installing Oracle Parallel Server

    Installing Oracle Parallel Server with OUI requires the "Custom" install type option for Enterprise Edition. Select "Oracle Parallel Server" from the expanded "Product Options" component tree. You will be prompted to enter Oracle Parallel Server specific options from a subsequent window. The Oracle Parallel Server is installed on the node from which OUI is run. "Pushing" the installation to other nodes on the cluster from the same install session is not supported with this release.

    Cleaning Up After a Failed Installation

    If an installation fails, you might need to remove files that the Installer created during the last session before you attempt another installation.

    To clean up after a failed installation:

    1. Start the Oracle Universal Installer.

    2. Click the De-install Products button and select any products that were left after the failed installation.

    3. Click the Remove button.

    To complete the clean up, you might need to manually remove the
    ORA_ROOT directory.

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