Accessing the Installation Software

The remote DVD drive must allow shared access.

To set this up, perform these steps on the remote computer that has the DVD drive:

1. Log in to the remote computer as an Administrator user.

2. Start Windows Explorer.

3. Right-click the DVD drive letter and select Sharing (or Sharing and Security).

4. Click the Sharing tab and do the following:

   1. Select Share this folder.

   2. In Share name, give it a share name such as dvd. You use this name when you map the DVD drive on the local computer in step 1.d of "Step 2: On the Local Computer, Map the DVD Drive".

   3. Click Permissions. You need at least read permission for the user who accesses the drive to install Oracle Database.

   4. Click OK when you are finished.

5. Insert the Oracle Database installation media into the DVD drive.

Perform these steps on the local computer to map a remote DVD drive and to run Oracle Universal Installer from the mapped drive:

1. Map the remote DVD drive.

   1. Start Windows Explorer on the local computer.

   2. From the Tools menu, select Map Network Drive to display the Map Network Drive dialog box.

   3. Select a drive letter to use for the remote DVD drive.

   4. In Folder, enter the location of the remote DVD drive using the following format:

      \\remote_hostname\share_name
      

      where:

      • remote_hostname is the name of the remote computer with the DVD drive.

      • share_name is the share name that you entered in step 4 of the previous procedure. For example:

        \\computer2\dvd
        

   5. If you must connect to the remote computer as a different user, click different user name, and enter the user name.

   6. Click Finish.

2. Run Oracle Universal Installer from the mapped DVD drive.

If you have copied the contents of the Oracle Database DVD to a hard drive, you can install the software from the hard drive.

1. Ensure that the remote access software is installed and running on the remote and local computers.
2. Share the hard drive that contains the Oracle Database DVD.
3. On the remote computer, map a drive letter to the shared hard drive. You use the remote access software to do this on the remote computer.
4. Through the remote access software, run Oracle Universal Installer on the remote computer. You access Oracle Universal Installer from the shared hard drive.

You can insert the DVD into a drive on your local computer, and install from the DVD.

1. Ensure that the remote access software is installed and running on the remote and local computers.
2. On the local computer, share the DVD drive.

   On the remote computer, map a drive letter to the shared DVD drive. You use the remote access software to do this on the remote computer.

3. Through the remote access software, run Oracle Universal Installer on the remote computer. You access Oracle Universal Installer from the shared DVD drive.

To download the installation archive files from Oracle Technology Network:

1. Use any browser to access the software download page from OTN at:
   http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/downloads/index.html
2. Navigate to the download page for the product to install.
3. On the download page, identify the required disk space by adding the file sizes for each required file.

   The file sizes are listed next to the file names.

4. Select a file system with enough free space to store and expand the archive files.

   In most cases, the available disk space must be at least twice the size of all of the archive files.

5. On the file system that you selected in step 4, create a parent directory for each product, for example OraDB12c, to hold the installation directories.
6. Download all of the installation archive files to the directory that you created in step 5.
7. Verify that the files you downloaded are the same size as the corresponding files on Oracle Technology Network. Also verify the checksums are the same as noted on Oracle Technology Network.
8. Extract the files in each directory that you just created.

1. Use any browser to access the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud website:

   http://edelivery.oracle.com/
   

2. Complete the Export Validation process by entering information (name, company, e-mail address, and country) in the online form.
3. In the Media Pack Search page, specify the Product Pack and Platform to identify the Media Pack you want to download. If you do not know the name of the Product Pack, you can search for it using the License List.
4. Optionally, select the relevant product to download from the Results list.
5. In the search results page, click Readme to download and review the Readme file for download instructions and product information.
6. After you review the Readme, choose the appropriate Media Pack from the search results to download the individual zip files. Follow the Download Notes instructions in this page. Once you download and extract the contents of the required zip files, proceed with the installation of the software.

   Note:

   Print the page with the list of downloadable files. It contains a list of part numbers and their corresponding descriptions to refer during the installation process.

7. After you download the files, click View Digest to verify that the MD5 or SHA-1 checksum matches with what is listed in the media download page.

Use this procedure to extract the installation archive files.

1. If necessary, change to the directory that contains the downloaded installation archive files.
2. Oracle Database software is available as two zip files. Ensure that you extract both the zip files to the same directory.