Installation on Windows 7 or 8 will return operating system
version compatibility error. However, there will not be any such issue during
installation on older version of Windows operating system.
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Let’s
start with the installation process.
Step 1:
Oracle 10g installation is done via Oracle Universal Installer. As
mentioned earlier, Installation of Oracle 10g on Windows 7 will return version
compatibility error as shown here below
“Checking operating system version: must be 5.0,5.1,5.2 or 6.0.
Actual 6.1”
Do not panic, you will only need to edit a couple of files to get
the installation working. Let me show you how to handle this in a series of
steps.
Step 2:
Locate the file /install/oraparam.ini after you extract the
installation zip file to your local computer or external disk.
Step 3:
Change the following to include the version “Actual 6.1” as per
the installation. You may see other version numbers as well. Use the
appropriate version number for the changes you are going to make.
[Certified Versions]
#You can customise error message shown for failure, provide value for CERTIFIED_VERSION_FAILURE_MESSAGE
Windows=5.0,5.1,5.2,6.0
#You can customise error message shown for failure, provide value for CERTIFIED_VERSION_FAILURE_MESSAGE
Windows=5.0,5.1,5.2,6.0
Change to
[Certified Versions]
# You can customise error message shown for failure, provide value for
CERTIFIED_VERSION_FAILURE_MESSAGE
Windows = 5.0,5.1,5.2,6.0,6.1
[Certified Versions]
# You can customise error message shown for failure, provide value for
CERTIFIED_VERSION_FAILURE_MESSAGE
Windows = 5.0,5.1,5.2,6.0,6.1
Step 4:
Add this
additional block needed
[Windows-6.1-required]
# Minimum display colours for OUI to run
MIN_DISPLAY_COLORS = 256
# Minimum CPU speed required for OUI
# CPU = 300
[Windows-6.1-required]
# Minimum display colours for OUI to run
MIN_DISPLAY_COLORS = 256
# Minimum CPU speed required for OUI
# CPU = 300
Step 5:
You will need to add Windows 7 compatabilty entries in
databasestageprereqdbrefhost.xml and databasestageprereqdb_prereqsdb
refhost.xml.
Find the following entries and insert the following . Keep in mind
that 6.1 for VERSION VALUE is based on the version we are using in this tutorials.
Use the appropriate version number based on the error message you get.
<!–Microsoft
Windows 7–>
<OPERATING_SYSTEM>
<VERSION VALUE="6.1"/>
</OPERATING_SYSTEM>
<OPERATING_SYSTEM>
<VERSION VALUE="6.1"/>
</OPERATING_SYSTEM>
Here is entry
for “CERTIFIED_SYSTEMS” block adding the entry for Windows 7.
<CERTIFIED_SYSTEMS>
<OPERATING_SYSTEM>
<VERSION VALUE="5.0"/>
<SERVICE_PACK VALUE="1"/>
</OPERATING_SYSTEM>
<OPERATING_SYSTEM>
<VERSION VALUE="5.1"/>
<SERVICE_PACK VALUE="1"/>
</OPERATING_SYSTEM>
<OPERATING_SYSTEM>
<VERSION VALUE="5.2"/>
</OPERATING_SYSTEM>
<!–Microsoft Windows Vista–>
<OPERATING_SYSTEM>
<VERSION VALUE="6.0"/>
</OPERATING_SYSTEM>
<!–Microsoft Windows 7–>
<OPERATING_SYSTEM>
<VERSION VALUE="6.1"/>
</OPERATING_SYSTEM>
</CERTIFIED_SYSTEMS>
<OPERATING_SYSTEM>
<VERSION VALUE="5.0"/>
<SERVICE_PACK VALUE="1"/>
</OPERATING_SYSTEM>
<OPERATING_SYSTEM>
<VERSION VALUE="5.1"/>
<SERVICE_PACK VALUE="1"/>
</OPERATING_SYSTEM>
<OPERATING_SYSTEM>
<VERSION VALUE="5.2"/>
</OPERATING_SYSTEM>
<!–Microsoft Windows Vista–>
<OPERATING_SYSTEM>
<VERSION VALUE="6.0"/>
</OPERATING_SYSTEM>
<!–Microsoft Windows 7–>
<OPERATING_SYSTEM>
<VERSION VALUE="6.1"/>
</OPERATING_SYSTEM>
</CERTIFIED_SYSTEMS>
Note: If any of
the entries does not match the Operating System version then you will see the
following error after the installation starts for “Checking operating system
requirements step”
Step 6:
Save the
modified files and restart the installation running setup.exe. You will see the
messages as shown here below
Step 7:
Change Oracle
Home location and select the Installation type.
If you are not planning to use the starter database then you need to uncheck the “Create Starter Database (additional 720MB) check box option
Enter the database name and password.
If you are not planning to use the starter database then you need to uncheck the “Create Starter Database (additional 720MB) check box option
Enter the database name and password.
Step 8:
Click “Next” to
continue with the installation.
If you encounter any status with Error(s) during “Product-Specific Prerequisite Checks” then you need to check further before you can continue with the installation; otherwise your Oracle Server may not work.
If you encounter any status with Error(s) during “Product-Specific Prerequisite Checks” then you need to check further before you can continue with the installation; otherwise your Oracle Server may not work.
Step 9:
As soon as all
the requirements gets verified and the errors are eliminated, You will see the
“Succeeded” status as below screen shot for all the Product-Specific
Prerequisite checks.
It is assumed that this is a fresh install so no other Oracle products should be installed at this time.
In this screen,
the Source and Destination locations must be selected.
The Source path
should reflect either your CD-ROM or the directory in which you unzipped the
source files. Leave this as the default. In the example above, the source files
were unzipped into c:DOCUME~1HARILOCALS~1temprar$ex12.1593diskstageproduct.xml.
For the
Destination, leave the Oracle Home named oraDb10g_home1 as the default. Choose
a hard disk drive that has at least 6 gigabytes of free space. In the example
here, we are using the E: drive.
Leave the
Oracleproduct10.1.0db_1 path as it is (the default). If you must change this to
a different drive, only change the drive letter and not the directories.
Click on the
Next button to select installation type. This may take up to 2 minutes
(depending on the speed of your machine). Once the product information has been
read, the following 3 "Available Products" options are presented:
After selecting the type click on the next button to get the screen:
After selecting the type click on the next button to get the screen:
For this
install, we chose the "General Purpose" Database option. Click on the
Next button to continue.
The next step
is to identify the database using the Global database name
Keep the
default names for GLOBAL and the SID Otherwise, use the following (make a note
of these for later on): Global Database Name is orcl, Oracle SID is orcl
Click on the
Next button to continue to the "database file storage option" screen
In this step,
you need to select where the Oracle data files will be located. In large
operations, we typically keep the data files on a separate disk (or disks),
however, for this install, keep the default storage
Click on the
Next button to move to the "Summary" screen:
In this screen
(shown above), the products and files that will be installed are summarized.
Note that in this example, it will take 1.5 GB MB of disk space for the
installation of the software. Additional space will be required for the default
database.
If everything
looks OK at this point, click on the Install button to begin the installation.
During the
install, you will notice various Oracle products being copied over to the hard
disk.
Once the
installation is completed, the next step will be to configure the various
additional services and the database.
The following
tools will be automatically starts and it is optional. It is recommended,
although not required
Click on the
next button .The Oracle Database Configuration Assistant will appear for some
time while the default database is created and opened. As below
Once the
default database has been installed, the following screen will appear
Click on the
Password Management button and change the default passwords for the SYS,
SYSTEM, SCOTT and DBSNMP accounts as shown below:
Click the OK
button to complete the installation. The following screen will be appears:
After
completion of installation .reboot your computer.
To Remove the Oracle Products
Go to start
menu – > programs – > orcle-oradb10g_home5 – >oracle installation
products – > Click the universal installer, the screen will appears as below
click the
button installed product. to see the installed products. you will see the
screen as below
Click the
button remove to remove the oracle products or you can remove directly on
clicking deinstall product button in welcome page.
Testing Installation
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Testing Installation
Go to start
menu – > programs – >oracle-oradb10g_home5 – >application development
-> click on the sql plus.
It will appears
like the screen below, Once SQL Plus is running, you will be prompted for 3
things: Username, password and Host String.
Fill in the
Username and password fields with the SYSTEM account and leave the Host String
field blank. Since we are connecting to a local Oracle database, no Host String
is required. Click on the OK button as shown below:
If the database
is running and the username and password are typed correctly, SQL*Plus should
log the SYSTEM user in and present the SQL>prompt as shown below
Uninstalling Oracle 10g
Following step
will describes the uninstallation of oracle 10g:
First you have to remove all the oracle products by using oracle
universal installer Go to start button -> programs ->
oracle-oraDb10g_home1 -> oracle installation products -> click on the
universal installer. You will get welcome screen, click on the deinstall
products
To remove the
oracle products. After uninstall the products. Now you have to remove all the
remaining oracle products manually run this command regedit.exe. You will get
registry editor.
Find related to
oracle by using ctrl+f and remove all you find related to oracle, Do this again
and again until you get no search. After completing this, reboot your system
Note: when you
installing oracle 10g at first time on your system you may not encounter any
problem. If any thing wrong you done when installation you may get an error
like this staging area error
To overcome with that error you must delete every think related to oracle by using above uninstallation steps
To overcome with that error you must delete every think related to oracle by using above uninstallation steps
.
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