Setup Wizard Installation Options for Creating Images

Before you start the setup wizards for your Oracle Database or Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation, decide if you want to use any of the available image-creation options.

In image-based installations, you can start your Oracle Database installation or Oracle Grid Infrastructure installations by running the setup wizards runInstaller and gridSetup.sh respectively. Both these wizards come with the following image-creation options.

Table 10-1 Image-Creation Options for Setup Wizard

Option	Description
-createGoldImage	Creates a gold image from the current Oracle home.
-destinationLocation	Specify the complete path, or location, where the gold image will be created.
-exclFiles	Specify the complete paths to the files to be excluded from the newly created gold image.
—help	Displays help for all the available options.

For example:

./runInstaller -createGoldImage -destinationLocation /tmp/my_db_images

./gridSetup.sh -createGoldImage -destinationLocation /tmp/my_grid_images

Where:

/tmp/my_db_images is a temporary file location where the image zip file is created.

/tmp/my_grid_images is a temporary file location where the image zip file is created.

/u01/app/oracle/product/18.0.0/dbhome_1/relnotes is the file to be excluded in the newly created gold image.