Oracle Financials 11i Installation Steps -Windows 2k,2003,XP

STEP I : OS Installation (Windows based)

Pentium 4, 160GB HDD, 1 GB Ram Memory minimum required and keep atleast 20 GB for staging in separate partition.

Install Windows XP / 2003 Server Edition

Setup required in Windows 2003 :
- Create the Active Directory & setup the Domain
- Create ‘Oracle’ User Account and make the member of ‘Administrators & Domain Users’ groups
- Restart the server.

Setup required in Windows XP :-

Add the Domain name in DNS Suffix at DNS, Network Connection setting.

Update the c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file as per the given domain like follows.
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost.streed.com

STEP II: VC++ & MKS Toolkit Installation

Logon as Oracle User

Install VC++ Software

VC++ should be first installed before installing MKS & GNUMAKE
- Install Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 to Target directory C:\MSVC
- Install Common files to C:\MSVC\common

Note : When Visual C++ is installed, let the installer register all environment variables. This will allow executables to be linked automatically for the command line execution.

Restart the system.

Install MKS Tool kit 8.0

Run Setup from MKSTOOL CD to the Destination folder C:\MKSTOOL
This will Create additional directory under C:\MKSTOOL\MKSNT

Restart the server.

How to Download and Configure GNUMAKE

NOTE: Please, be aware that you must install Visual C++ BEFORE installing GNUMAKE,
because its installation process involves linking executables.

1) Before downloading GNUMAKE, you will need to acquire some utilities which will be used for unpacking files.

Download URL for make utility : ftp://ftp.gnu.org & ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/
Download URL for gunzip & tar utilities : http://www.cs.utah.edu/classes/cs4962/emacs/emacs.html

Make-3.77.tar.gz
gunzip-1.2.4-i386.exe
tar-1.11.2a.exe

2) Download the above 3 files and place them into C:\GNUMAKE folder
Rename gunzip-1.2.4-i386.exe to gunzip.exe
Rename tar-1.11.2a.exe to tar.exe

3) Unpack make-3.77.tar.gz file using gunzip.exe from a Command Prompt Window
Example: C:\GNUMAKE>gunzip make-3.77.tar.gz (.gz will be removed)

4) UnTAR the file make-3.77.tar, with the following command: C:\GNUMAKE>tar -xvf make-3.77.tar
This will create a new subdirectory called MAKE-3.77 under C:\GNUMAKE, the original directory.

5) Run build_w32.bat from C:\GNUMAKE\make-3.77 folder. It creates GNUMAKE.EXE in WinRel folder. Run the same build_w32.bat file twice for gnumake.exe creation.

6) Also run config.bat from C:\GNUMAKE\MAKE-3.77 folder

7) Copy make.exe from C:\MKSTOOL\MKSNT to C:\GNUMAKE\make-3.77\WinRel &
C:\GNUMAKE\make-3.77\WinDebug & C:\Windows\System32 folders.

Just to test & confirm the path, run the following in the command prompt.

(1)which.exe (2) make.exe (3) gnumake.exe

8) Path should be set in mycomputer/environment variables/System Variables like follows.

C:\MSVC\Bin;C:\GNUMAKE\make-3.77\WinRel;C:\GNUMAKE\make-3.77\WinDebug;
C:\GNUMAKE\make-3.77;C:\MKSTOOL \bin;C:\MKSTOOL \bin\X11;C:\MKSTOOL \mksnt;

Restart the System.

STEP III :

Setup the Staging Area for Apps 11i Installation

Directories to Create under D:\Stage11i

1.startCD { Start Here DVD ( Disk 1)}

2.oraApps { Appltop DVD1 (Disk 1 to Disk 6)}

3.oraDB {RDBMS DVD 1( Disk 1 to Disk 3)}

4.oraiAS {Tools Disk DVD (Disk 1 to Disk 3)}

5.oraAppDB {Database Disk DVD 3 nos (Disk 1 to Disk 19)}

Use xcopy /e e:\. Command for copying the entire CD into relevant folders.

Stage all the cd’s in the same manner.


STEP IV :

Start the installation (Generally takes 87GB including OS, VisionDB & 11i installation. Vision DB alone takes 60GB)

CD d:\stage11i\startcd\disk1\rapidwiz\rapidwiz.cmd

Please change the directories name as per directories created earlier. Example: C:\MKSTOOL\MKSNT
C:\MSVC\VC98.

Rapidwiz will start the validation and it should show all green signals, if its fails in any one of the check list, rectify the error before proceeding further.

After passing all the validation check lists sucessfully, the installation takes about few hours to complete without user intervention.

Finally, Restart the system.


To work on Oracle Applications, visit URL http://apps11:8000

Logon User Name : sysadmin / sysadmin & operations / welcome