File Locations

Use this page to enter the stage location of your product and the location where you want Oracle Universal Installer to install your product. Specify full paths with up to 32 alphanumeric characters.

Note: Do not leave any fields empty.

Source

Path: Enter the full path of the products.jar file from which the product(s) will be installed. You may also use the Browse button to find the products.jar file.

The stage location is the centralized location where components have been placed for installations. It could be a single-CD staging area or a multi-CD staging area which spans across more than one disk. The components are bundled in one stage location and their description file is the products.jar file. The Oracle Universal Installer will read this file and provide a list of the components available to be installed.

The stage location may be a local CD-ROM drive, a network drive, or a web location. See the examples in the table below:

Examples

Stage Location

Example

CD-ROM location

D:/<directory_name> which is pre-populated when you run the Universal Installer from a CD-ROM.

Note: If you are installing a product from multiple CD-ROMs, see Installing from Multiple CD-ROMs.

Network Drive

/net/<directory_name>/Disk1/stage1/products.jar

Web Location

To set up any webserver, you need a stage placed on a webserver location.

For example: files can be accessed by pointing a browser at:

http://<webserver>:<port>/<my_stage>/stage

http://www.oracle.com:81/Disk1/stage1/products.jar

Destination

Name: Enter an Oracle home name or select it from the drop-down list.

If you currently do not have a home created on your machine, one is created for you during the installation. The home will have whatever name you enter in the Name field.

Oracle homes are identified by name, and the Oracle home name identifies the program group associated with a particular Oracle home, and the Oracle services installed on the associated home. The Oracle home name must be 1 to 16 characters long and can only include alphanumeric characters and underscores. The Oracle home name must not include spaces.

Path: Enter the Oracle home with its full path or select it from a drop-down list of existing Oracle Homes.

The following list contains the Oracle homes Oracle Universal Installer maintains on Windows platforms:

The following list contains the Oracle homes Oracle Universal Installer maintains on UNIX:

If none of these homes exists, a default home is calculated based on the disk volume with the largest amount of free space.

You may also use the Browse button to choose a directory to install your product. This location is the destination directory to which the product will be installed.