11i Installation on XP

Hi viewers,

the following is the procedure for implementing oracle 11i in an personal computer:

Software Requirements:

1. VC++ - freeware (can be downloaded from microsoft website) http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/#webInstall

2. Pearl - not a freeware. findout from ur collogues whether any free edition is available. paid edition can be downloaded from www.activestate.com

3. cygwin - freeware can be downloaded from cygwin website.

Hardware requirements:

1. RAM - mininum 1GB ram for effective usage

2. Hard disk - Minimum 120GB harddisk, 150GB is recommended.

in 120GB harddisk u can only install windows, software requirements and oracle 11i. other than that u cannot install install even MS Office. so better allocate 150GB for installation.

Installation procedure overview:

1. Install all the software requirements, that is, VC++, Active pearl, cygwin.

2. Staging the oracle applications.

3. Domain name configuration.

3. Starting the rapidwiz.

Discriptive installation procedure:

1. Instllation of Software requirements:

a. VC++ is a software which will be available only with the Visual Basic software which can be downloaded from the microsoft download center.

b. Active pearl can be downloaded from the website www.activestate.com.

c. cygwin can be downloaded from the website www.cygwin.com.

there is no specific procedure for installing these softwares except cygwin. The necessory packages u need to select to download while installing is:

a. All Default
b. Archive Default, plus manually select the zip package
c. Base Default, plus manually select the following extra packages: ash, coreutils,
diffutils, findutils, gawk, grep, sed, tar and which
d. Devel Default, plus manually select binutils, gcc, gcc-core, gcc-g++, make and
mktemp
e. Doc Default, plus manually select cygwin-doc and man
f. Editors Default, plus manually select vim
g. Interpreters Default, plus manually select gawk
h. Shells Default, plus manually select ash and tcsh
i. Utils Default, plus manually select cygutils and file

it is important to remember the location of the installed softwares.

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