Step by step Guide

R12.1.1 Installation On Windows Server 2008

32 bit / 64 Bit

Mohammed Raouf

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o Using Boot CD. o Install Windows Server. o Change your Computer and Workgroup Name. o Setup Windows Loader. o Setup a loopback Network. o Enter an IP and DNS for the new Network. o Set your host file. o Setup Active Perl. o Setup CGYWIN. o Copy MAKE file. o Setup Visual Studio 2005. o Let’s play a game in C partition. o Setup an older version of Firefox. o Update your Windows [or] setup Net framework. o Setup Ultra-ISO to Mount the Oracle R12.1 Source. o Rapidwiz Installation and watch a movie. o Turn All Oracle Services to Manual. o Install Java 6.0.31 and don’t even think about Updating.

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Using Boot CD

This step is to turn a Dynamic Partition to Primary with any partition tools programs you familiar with ‘not for all laptops’ WHY ? Because most of us have one Primary C Partition which is often Windows 8 / 7 / vista or XP and you simply don’t want Windows Server to be your primary operating system because it looks like Windows 98.

So we do this step to have 2 operating systems one for fun and the second for being serious, which will be installed on Two Primary Partitions with recommended 40 G size for each one.

Also you need a 220 G minimum size for a the partition that you will install Oracle R12 on it, so maybe you have to Resize your partitions.

It is available for Free Download so easy, with no serial required. Like any other windows setup steps except one thing on the beginning of installation you will choose which type of windows you need. You will choose ‘Enterprise Full Installation’ . Now you ready to go.

Install Windows Server

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your login page will be Computer name . Workgroup name : 8000

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Setup Windows Loader

To activate your Windows, because I am sure you don’t have 730 $ in your pocket now and even if you do you will not buy windows server.

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2 Right Click on your Com name and Select Add legacy hardware

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From the menu choose Network adapter

Make sure in the left menu you choose Microsoft and the

Right menu Microsoft Loopback adapter

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Congratulations !

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Right Click and select Network and sharing

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Done

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Open the etc file

then you find this window open the host with Notepad

In the Run window Enter drivers

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Enter your IP then Tab and your Com and Workgroup names, Don’t click SPACE !

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very easy to setup – Next / Next and Finish

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very easy to setup – But with some tips

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Open Browse then choose CYGWIN_setup and click ok and Next

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In your setup files you will find a file called MAKE, just copy it to the C partition directly

We will get back to this later

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Setup Visual Studio 2005

very easy to setup – But with some tips

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Delete the original path and make it directly to the C with no spaces between letters

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Un check all then choose Visual C++ only

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While you are waiting this very important Caution will Appear !! Don’t Miss

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Finally after about 10 Minutes

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The game in C partition

This 4 files is our game now …. the game is so simple we will COPY some files ONLY !!!

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From the Make file | usr | bin | gnumake Copy the gnumake to Windows | System32 then Copy it again in VS | VC | bin as you see in the window down there ….

From the Same window Copy cl to Windows | System32 .. Now enough playing for now ..

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Setup an older version of Firefox

Firefox 14.0 will do Fine

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NFW 1.1 NFW 4.5

If you enable Automatic Update there will be installed automatic, But I recommend to Download this two programs and install them – Next /Next /Finish

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Setup Ultra-ISO to Mount the Oracle

R12.1 Source

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If the mounted Source CD doesn’t appear … Just Restart

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After opening the source open this files till you find this window : StartCD | Disk1 | rapidwiz

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After Show the hidden files and uncheck Hide

extensions you can see that Rapidwiz

became Rapidwiz.cmd

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They know that you will close it so don’t and be a good boy.

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Don’t do any thing here because this is a vision installation not a real one.

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The first and the second browse, open them and enter the same directory in the screen if you did as I said, the third one don’t open it Just choose the 220 G Partition.

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Now the system checks for any thing I did wrong

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Every thing is Just fine, after you click next you will come back after 3 hours in this time I recommend to see JOBS movie if you didn’t see it

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Sometimes with 32bit a lot of things goes wrong here, you shouldn’t give up and close it don’t ever, you simply have to start all the services that belong to oracle again and click next, I will show you how to start and stop a service later ..

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you almost there

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Turn All Oracle Services to Manual

Open RUN window and enter Services.msc then search for Oracle services and open each one and change the startup type to Manual after this step you should restart.

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Now every time you open windows server you must start this 6 services in this ORDER

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Tools listener

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Install Java 6.0.31

It is kind of hard thing to Configure your Ethernet driver but it is not impossible, you can try Vista drivers even 32/64 bit. but I recommend to use an USB modem or Ethernet USB to have an internet which is required to setup java 6.0.31 to open EBS forms.

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Open your browser again to apply java

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What about 64bit ?

Two Simple Points : 1- Also Copy gnumake file to Cygwin | bin and Cygwin | Cygdrive

2- Don’t Show the Hidden files in rapidwiz, open it directly.