Staging installable files for Oracle 11.5.10.2.

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Hi,
First of all, thanks to all those who have posted so useful threads about installing Oracle 11i on windows. I am trying the same with an external hard drive (250GB) and a laptop with 1GB RAM.
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I have done the CYGWIN, VC++, Perl, etc. setups and the following for staging the installation files. My question is that is this the correct way for staging, because my rapid installation is stuck at "Step 4 of 5", upper status bar is at 60% (Command: E\oracle\viscomm\temp\adruant.cmd) and the lower status bar is at 100% (Completed unzip <b>1230</b> of 1236).
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This is what I did for staging - first I tried to use the adautostg.pl script in StartCD\Disk1\rapitwiz folder, it staged the contents of the first CD (CL1, CL2...etc), but it did not do it for the rest. Then I found that the staging done by this script is the same as just unzipping the contents of the files in one staging folder. PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG HERE.
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Also, I have staged (unzipped) only the following CDs in the Stage11i folder. Do I need to unzip the other files too?
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1. Oracle® Applications 11i Release 11.5.10.2 Rapid Install Start Here - Disk 1<br>
2. Oracle® Applications 11i Release 11.5.10.2 for Microsoft Windows Rapid Install RDBMS - Disk 1<br>
3. Oracle® Applications 11i Release 11.5.10.2 for Microsoft Windows Rapid Install Databases - Disk 1<br>
4. Oracle® Applications 11i Release 11.5.10.2 for Microsoft Windows Rapid Install Databases - Disk 2<br>
5. Oracle® Applications 11i Release 11.5.10.2 for Microsoft Windows Rapid Install Databases - Disk 3<br>
6. Oracle® Applications 11i Release 11.5.10.2 for Microsoft Windows Rapid Install Tools - Disk 1<br>
7. Oracle® Applications 11i Release 11.5.10.2 for Microsoft Windows Rapid Install APPL_TOP - Disk 1<br>
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I have NOT unzipped the following (and any others in the download link on edelivery.oracle.com).<br>
1. Oracle® Forms and Reports 6i Release 2 for Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP<br>
2. Oracle® Discoverer Administration Edition, Version 4.1.37 for Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP<br>
3. Oracle9i Warehouse Builder Release 9.2.0.2.8 for Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP<br>
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I am not sure why is the installation stuck. Can anyone help me with this?
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One more thing that may be of importance is that I have setup my hosts file entry as
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127.0.0.1 localhost
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172.17.163.252 localhost.gdhir.com
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Where 172.17.163.252 is my 'current' ip address when I connect to the internet. The pre-installation checks succeed only if I add this line to my hosts file. Otherwise it gives error in pre-installation.
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I noticed that my internet connection was not working in between and my question related to this is that - is it possible that the installation is stuck because of this reason? Now the internet is working but the installation is not moving forward.
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Any suggestions are welcome.
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Thanks,
Dhir.

Answer 1

1) Stop the installer and clean your previous Oracle applications installation (Note: 107961.1 should be helpful). Don't forget to REBOOT the machine
2) Install Microsoft loopback adapter and add the following entry in the hosts file
10.10.10.10 localhost.gdhir.com (I assume you use 10.10.10.10 as the IP address when configuring your loopback adapter) .. Remove the entry (172.17.163.252 localhost.gdhir.com) from your hosts file
3) ping localhost.gdhir.com --> should return 10.10.10.10
4) Start the installation of Oracle applications
The pre-installation checks will succeed now (regardless you are connected to the internet or not)