3 Starting the Oracle Collaboration Suite Installation

This chapter describes how to get started with Oracle Collaboration Suite installations. You must follow the procedures in this chapter to ensure that the installation process is successful.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Section 3.1, "Installing Oracle Collaboration Suite from the DVDs"

• Section 3.2, "Installing Oracle Collaboration Suite from a Hard Drive"

• Section 3.3, "Understanding Oracle Universal Installer"

• Section 3.4, "Starting Oracle Universal Installer"

3.1 Installing Oracle Collaboration Suite from the DVDs

Oracle Collaboration Suite includes DVD-ROMs for installing the following products:

• Oracle Collaboration Suite

• Oracle Calendar server Standalone

• Oracle Voicemail & Fax and Oracle Web Conferencing Conversion Servers for Microsoft Windows

• Patches (OracleAS Portal, Oracle Database, and other required patches)

• Oracle Collaboration Suite clients

• Oracle Cluster Ready Services 10.1.0.2

Oracle Collaboration Suite is also shipped with a Documentation CD-ROM.

The following utilities are no longer shipped as a part of the Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g CD set:

• OracleAS Metadata Repository Creation Assistant

• OracleAS Metadata Repository Upgrade Assistant and Utilities

  They are available for download (as on Oracle Application Server download) at

  http://www.oracle.com/technology/index.html

  You must search for the Metadata Repository Upgrade Assistant and Utilities option or the Metadata Repository Creation Assistant option.

You can either choose to install Oracle Collaboration Suite directly from the DVDs, or copy the DVD content and then install from your system hard drive. You must complete the procedures required for the installation method you choose before starting Oracle Universal Installer.

3.2 Installing Oracle Collaboration Suite from a Hard Drive

1. Copy the content of each DVD to your system hard drive under a directory named Disk1 for the first DVD, and so on (depending upon the number of the DVDs in the sequence of disks that comprises the set).

2. Start Oracle Universal Installer.

   See Section 2.1 for hard disk requirements for your platform

   
   

   See Also: Section 3.1 for instructions on mounting and unmounting DVD-ROMs

   
   

3.3 Understanding Oracle Universal Installer

Oracle Collaboration Suite uses Oracle Universal Installer to guide you through each step of the installation process. Oracle Universal Installer provides the following features:

• Describes installation options for Oracle Collaboration Suite

• Detects preset environment variables and configuration settings

• Deinstalls Oracle Collaboration Suite products

This section describes the following Oracle Universal Installer features:

• oraInventory Directory and Installation Session Log Files

• Additional Component Installations with Oracle Universal Installer

3.3.1 oraInventory Directory and Installation Session Log Files

Oracle Collaboration Suite creates the oraInventory directory the first time it is run on a computer. The oraInventory directory keeps an inventory of products that Oracle Collaboration Suite installs on your computer, as well as other installation information. If you have previously installed Oracle products, then you might already have an oraInventory directory.

The location of oraInventory is stored in the Windows Registry. The defualt location of the Inventory directory is C:\Program Files\oracle\oraInventory.

The log file of the most recent installation is as follows:

%ORACLE_BASE%\oraInventory\logs\installActionstodays_date_time.log

In this specification, $ORACLE_BASE%ORACLE_BASE% is the location for your installation files and todays_date_time is the date and time of installation.

Do not delete or manually alter the oraInventory directory or its contents. Doing so can prevent Oracle Universal Installer from locating products that you have installed on your system.

Note: The make.log file in the %ORACLE_HOME%\install directory contains a log of every make file action executed during the installation process. The make.log file also records any link errors during installation. Do not delete or alter the make.log file.

3.3.2 Additional Component Installations with Oracle Universal Installer

If you plan to install a subsequent Oracle Collaboration Suite or Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Infrastructure installation on the same host, Oracle recommends the following steps:

1. Review Chapter 2 for preinstallation tasks.

2. Stop the Oracle Enterprise Manager. For more information, refer to the Oracle Collaboration Suite Administrator's Guide.

3. Ensure that all other previously installed Oracle Collaboration Suite instances are running when you begin installation.

4. Specify a different Oracle home than the first Oracle Collaboration Suite installation.

3.4 Starting Oracle Universal Installer

Starting the Installer

To start Oracle Universal Installer, perform the following steps:

This starts Oracle Universal Installer, through which you can install Oracle Collaboration Suite.