File Locations for Oracle Applications

Use this page to enter the full path stage location of your product and the location where you want to install your product. Do not leave any fields empty.

Source

Path: Enter the full path of the products.xml file from which the product(s) will be installed. You may also click Browse to find the products.xml 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.xml file. OUI will read this file and provide a list of the components available to be installed.

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

Stage Location	Example
CD-ROM Location	`D:/<directory_name>` which is pre-populated when you run OUI 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.xml`
Web Location	To set up any webserver, you need a stage placed on a webserver location. Access files by pointing a browser to your web location: `http://<webserver>:<port>/<my_stage>/stage` For example: `http://www.oracle.com:81/Disk1/stage1/products.xml`

Destination

Use the fields in the Destination area of the page to enter the name and location of your Oracle home or the name and location of your APPL_TOP directory.

If you currently do not have an Oracle home or APPL_TOP created on your system, an Oracle home is created for you during the installation. The home will have whatever name you enter in the Name field for the Oracle home.

Oracle homes and APPL_TOP directories are identified by name. 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.

About the Oracle Homes on your Computer

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 home saved in the ORACLE_HOME environment variable

The following list shows Oracle homes maintained on UNIX:

All Oracle homes that are already created using OUI
All homes as defined in the /var/opt/oratab file
The home saved in the ORACLE_HOME environment variable

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

About the APPL_TOP Directories on your Computer

OUI recognizes all APPL_TOP directories created previously using OUI.

If there are no APPL_TOP directories on your computer, OUI creates a default APPL_TOP directory called appltop1. On Windows computers, the default location of this default APPL_TOP directory is in the appltop1 directory on the disk drive with the most available space. On UNIX computers, the default APPL_TOP directory is <your_home_directory>/appltop1.

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.