Setup Wizard Installation Options for Creating Images

Gold image-creation options to use with your Oracle Database or Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation setup wizards.

In image-based installations, you can start your Oracle Database installation or Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation by running the setup wizard setup.exe. This wizard comes with the following image-creation options:

Note:

setup.exe is the recommended setup wizard for installing both Oracle Database and Oracle Grid Infrastructure.

Table 9-1 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:

setup.exe -createGoldImage -destinationLocation c:\my_images 

Where:

c:\my_images is the file location where the image zip file is created.