Oracle Central Inventory location

I need several - let say three to four cantral inventory location (oraInventory) on one server hosting three to four databases.
The problem is after creating the first database, the other three or four databases default to the first inventory location (oraInventory) created for the first one and does not ask me for a location for a central inventory locaton for the second or other databases.
Why?
And if I can make the Oracle 10.2.0.4 software create several inventory locations - how?
Solaris 10 SPARC
Oracle 10 and 11g

Aman.... wrote:
Are you installing Oracle software couple of times or creating databases? What's different inventory locations you need for?Aman
Yes, I install the software for each oracle database independent of the other database due to the sensitivity of the databases. This also allow us to install CPU packages on the databases in the fields by packaging the CPU and unix scripts. With individual database repository, we can install patches on those databases at once.

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