Specify Home Details Page

Use this page to enter the location where you want to install your product. Do not leave any fields blank.

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 system, it is automatically created for you during the installation. You can specify the home name in the Name field.

Oracle homes are identified by name. On Windows, 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 128 characters long and can only include alphanumeric characters and underscores, but cannot have 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 shows the Oracle homes maintained on Windows platforms:

All Oracle homes that are already created using OUI
All homes created using the previous Oracle installer (ORCA-based)
The list of Oracle homes contained in the Windows registry

The following list shows the Oracle homes maintained on UNIX:

All Oracle homes that are already created using OUI
All homes as defined in the /etc/oratab or /var/opt/oracle/oratab file, depending on your operating system
The path specified by the ORACLE_HOME environment variable

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

The default home path is based on a value specified in the oraparam.ini file. On Windows, this path includes the drive letter assigned to the disk volume with most free space. On UNIX, the default path is determined as follows:

If the ORACLE_HOME environment variable is defined, that is the default path.
If the ORACLE_HOME environment variable is not defined, the default Oracle home path is a subdirectory in your home directory.

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

Note: In AddLangs mode, you need to select the name and path of the home containing the product for which you want to add languages.