Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Installation

Steps on Windows XP
Dear All,
I have installed Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 on Windows XP Professional
successfully. Installation steps is quite similar to the installation steps on
Windows 2003 [1]. The only difference I did is installing production environment
instead of vision demo database.
I have done a single node installation as follows:
Hardware & Software Specifications:
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Intel Pentium 4, CPU 3.2 GHz

2 GB of RAM
180 GB Hard Drive
Windows XP Professional with Sevice Pack 2

Installation Steps:
1) Install Windows XP Professional with SP2
2) Set 'Computer Name' as well as 'Domain Name'.
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Right click on 'My Computer' > Properties > 'Computer Name' > Change
Set 'Computer Name' to <hostname>
Click on More
Set a 'Primary DNS Suffix of this Computer' to <domainname.com>

3) Install Microsoft Loopback adapter and define an IP address (10.10.10.10)

For more information on how to do this, please refer to "How to install the
Microsoft Loopback adapter in Windows XP":
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/839013
4) Add a new entry in C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts as follows:
<IP Address>
<hostname.domainname.com>
10.10.10.10
hostname.domainname.com
5) From the command prompt, make sure you can do the following:
C:\> ping 10.10.10.10
C:\> ping hostname

C:\> ping hostname.domainname.com

6) Create a new user 'hsawwan' and make this user a member of:
- Administrators (local user)
7) Install Visual C++ 8.0 (Which is included in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005) in
'C:\VCPlus' -- Make sure not to install VC++ in a directory that contains spaces.
8) Download 'Cygwin' and install the required packages:
- Create a Cygwin directory (C:\cygwin) -- Make sure not to install 'Cygwin' in a
directory that contains spaces.
- Download the Cygwin Software (http://www.cygwin.com)
- Run 'Setup.exe' and choose 'Download without Installing'
- Select the following packages:
Archive - Default, plus manually select the zip package
Base - Default, plus manually select: ash, coreutils, diffutils, findutils, gawk, grep,
sed, tar and which
Devel - Default, plus manually select binutils, gcc, gcc-core, gcc-g++, make and
mktemp
Doc - Default, plus manually select cygwin-doc and man
Editors - Default, plus manually select vim
Interpreters - Default, plus manually select gawk
Shells - Default, plus manually select ash and tcsh
Utils - Default, plus manually select cygutils and file
- Once the download is complete, run 'Setup.exe' again and choose 'Install from
Local Directory'
- Specify the directory where you want to install Cygwin (C:\cygwin) and DOS as
the Default Text File Type
9) GNUMake is not required when using 'Cygwin' since it comes as a part of the
'Cygwin'.
C:\cygwin\bin>copy
C:\cygwin\bin>copy
C:\cygwin\bin>copy
C:\cygwin\bin>copy

gawk.exe awk.exe
grep.exe egrep.exe
make.exe gnumake.exe
gcc.exe cc.exe

10) Add 'C:\cygwin\bin' to the system path.

11) No JDK installation is required, JDK 5.0 (java version "1.5.0_08") is bundled
with Oracle Applications R12 installation.
12) Set Up the Stage Area:
Stage Area (C:\Stage12) requires a 26 GB hard disk space.
Extract the zip files (25 files) which have been downloaded from

(http://edelivery.oracle.com). Nothing special to do since the extracted files will

create the stage area directory structure by itself. You should see the following
structure under 'C:\Stage12' once you are done with the files extraction:
-

startCD > Disk1

oraAppDB > (Disk 1 to Disk 35)
oraApps > (Disk 1 to Disk 7)
oraAS > (Disk 1 to Disk 2)
oraDB > (Disk 1 to Disk 3)

13) Start the installation:

C:\> cd Stage12\startCD\Disk1\rapidwiz
C:\Stage12\startCD\Disk1\rapidwiz> RapidWiz.cmd
The installation wizard is similar to 11.5.10 RapidWiz. For 'VC++' and 'Cygwin' I
have provided the following paths:
s_MSDEVdir=C:\VCPlus\VC
s_MKSdir=C:\cygwin\bin
- It took almost 2 hours to install the production environment (3 hours when
installing the Vision instance)
- Total space required to install the production environment is 60 GB (153 GB is
required to install the Vision instance)
References:
[1] Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Installation on Windows 2003 (Oracle E-Business
Suite R12 Installation on Windows 2003
[2] Note: 405293.1 (Oracle Applications Release Notes Release 12)
[3] Note: 402311.1 (Oracle Applications Installation and Upgrade Notes Release
12 (12.0) for Microsoft Windows)
[4] Note: 414992.1 (Using Cygwin to Maintain Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12
on Windows)
[5] Oracle Applications Installation Guide: Using Rapid Install Release 12 (Part
No. B31295-02)