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Determining the Location for the Siebel Media Files and the Siebel Image

This topic is part of Preparing to Create a Siebel Installation Image.

It is recommended that you download or copy all of the Siebel media files to a central location on your network where you have sufficient disk space. This location might be the same location where you will create your Siebel image, a subdirectory of this location, or some other location.

The default top-level names used by Siebel Image Creator for the Siebel image directory are C:\Siebel_Install_Image on Windows or /Siebel_Install_Image on UNIX.

For example, if you are creating a Siebel image for Siebel CRM version 8.1.1.11 on a Windows computer, then you might create a directory C:\Siebel_Install_Image, in which you store your Siebel media files and Siebel images. In this example, when you run Siebel Image Creator, specify C:\Siebel_Install_Image as the top-level directory.

It is recommended that you also create one or more subdirectories in which to store the ZIP files and JAR files. For example, for Siebel CRM version 8.1.1.11 and 8.1.1, you might create subdirectories ZIP_8.1.1.11 and ZIP_8.1.1.0 and JAR_8.1.1.11 and JAR_8.1.1.0, in which you would store the ZIP files and JAR files that you use to create the Siebel image for files of Siebel CRM version 8.1.1.11 and version 8.1.1.0. You can use a similar approach for Siebel CRM version 8.2.2.4 and version 8.2.2.0.

Siebel Image Creator automatically creates another subdirectory (such as 8.1.1.11 or 8.2.2.4) to contain the installable Siebel modules, organized by operating system, that you choose to include in the Siebel image.

Siebel Image Directories

Your directories for the Siebel image, the ZIP files, and the JAR files might be as shown in Table 28. For other Siebel CRM releases, substitute the appropriate version numbers. As needed, you can create similar directories later for ZIP files and JAR files for subsequent Siebel CRM releases.

NOTE:  Optionally, after you create the network image in a central location, you might choose to copy a module-specific subdirectory of the Siebel image to a computer where you will install this module. Doing so can significantly improve performance during the installation, particularly for installations of Siebel Enterprise Server or Siebel Web Server Extension. For additional recommendations or requirements, see Oracle Universal Installer documentation on Oracle Technology Network.