Setup Wizard Installation Options for Creating Images

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

Options

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 2-1 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:

cd ORACLE_HOME
setup.exe -createGoldImage -destinationLocation c:\my_db_images -exclFiles C:\app\oracle\product\21.0.0\dbhome_1\relnotes

cd Grid_home
setup.exe -createGoldImage -destinationLocation c:\my_grid_images -exclFiles C:\app\oracle\product\21.0.0\dbhome_1\relnotes

Where:

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

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

C:\app\oracle\product\21.0.0\dbhome_1\relnotes is the file to be excluded from the newly created gold image.