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2.
Check if any Rapid Install StartCD patches
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have been released. Install the latest available
patch to resolve any known issues with the original StartCD included on the freshly
downloaded installation media.
3.
Don't create a new OS user and group. You'll use user “
oracle
” and group
“d b a
” for the
installation. Create the Oracle Base directory for the e-Business Suite installation on the
new file system.
[root@s1 ~]#
mkdir /u02/prod
[root@s1 ~]#
chown oracle:dba /u02/prod
4.
ODA Base is fully capable of running a 11.2.0.3 database because it's built for this purpose,
but additional packages are needed to run the Rapid Install. Follow My Oracle Support
note “How to Download Linux RPM's Directly on the Oracle Database Appliance (ODA)
(Doc ID 1461798.1)” to configure
odarpm
tool and use it to download and install the
following additional RPMs: libstdc++-devel.i386, gdbm.i386, libXp.x86_64 and libXi.i386.
For each package, execute the following commands (this example shows the download
and installation of libstdc++-devel.i386 package; the same needs to be executed for other
packages too):
[root@s1 ~]#
cd /opt/oracle/oak/odarpm
[root@s1 odarpm]#
./getrpm libstdc++-devel
libstdc++-devel-4.1.2-54.el5.i386.rpm
RPM libstdc++-devel has been downloaded in this directory /opt/oracle/oak/pkgrepos/rpms/
[root@s1 odarpm]#
rpm -ivh /opt/oracle/oak/pkgrepos/rpms/libstdc++-devel-4.1.2-54.el5.
i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:libstdc++-devel ########################################### [100%]
Now, before you start the Rapid Install, make sure you write down the hostname and domain name for the
prepared application tier VM, and choose the base path on the shared
/cloudfs
volume you want to use for the
application tier file system. This information will have to be provided to the installation wizard on the database tier.
The configuration details will be saved in the database and will be retrieved later when the installation is started on
the application tier servers.
The Rapid Install wizard requires a graphical environment to be configured and the
DISPLAY
variable to be set to
an available virtual desktop, which can be launched locally or remotely. In the figures to follow, I use VNC to provide
the graphical environment. The installation of R12.2 requires two port pools to be provided because it includes a dual
application tier file system needed for e-Business Suite online patching; all the other port numbers are derived from
the port pools. The installation described in this chapter uses port pools 11 and 12. Don't choose port pool 0 on ODA
because it will cause a port conflict with ODA's default database listeners.
Figure
11-2
shows the Rapid Install wizard input values for the installation of e-Business Suite R12.2 database on
ODA. Note how
/u02
(the temporary file system created in previous steps) is used as the location for all files.
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At the time of writing, no Rapid Install (StartCD) patches were available for R12.2. Once released, they will be noted in My
Oracle Support note “Oracle E-Business Suite Release Notes, Release 12.2 (Doc ID 1320300.1).”
