HOW TO CREATE A STAGING AREA FOR AN ORACLE9i INSTALLATION

To create a staging area for a 9i install complete the following steps:

1) Create the directories where the software will be staged.

This filesystem must be writable by the oracle user and have at least 2GB of free space.

% mkdir /database/9i/software/Disk1
% mkdir /database/9i/software/Disk2
% mkdir /database/9i/software/Disk3

(Note: The subdirectories must be named 'Disk1', Disk2', and 'Disk3' respectively, using this exact case)

2) Mount the first CDROM with the appropriate mount command for your platform.

Correct platform specific mounting instructions are included in the Oracle9i
Install Guides and Oracle Support Quick Start Guides indicated in Appendix A
below.

3) Copy the contents of the cdrom to the stage directory created in Step 1.

$ cd /cdrom
$ cp -R * /database/9i/software/Disk1

4) Unmount the cdrom

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Repeat Steps 2-4 for all 3 CDROMs
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Once all the disks have been copied to disk, you can proceed with the
Installation instructions in the Installation and Configuration Guide.