I have been setting up Oracle 10g R2 on a Redhat box which has to be reached by logging into 3 separate boxes (3 hops). Unfortunately the ability to run a x-windows client and use the Oracle universal installer GUI is not possible.
So I spent 30 minutes studying how to make a response file to pass to the installer.
The Oracle installer (on unix) is called normally from the command line using the command:
bash% runInstaller
Running the installer in silent mode and passing a response file is achieved by running the command:
bash% runInstaller -silent -Responsefile response.rsp
Luckily Oracle don't leave you to create your own, they provide a few sample response files. For 10g those were located (after unzipping the Oracle database zipfile) in the database/response directory.
After that it was dead-easy. Each sample response file is extremely well commented and explains each parameter well enough to understand its importance. Bravo Oracle!
So after about 15-20 minutes editing a copy of a sample response file, I kicked off the installer and bingo!! I now have a new Oracle10g install, this was complete in about 5 minutes.
The best part of the response file was the ability to take that file and reuse on the failover box. The return on investment of time after the first edit is that each new machine which is using a similar Oracle install becomes simple. Almost to the point of adding the command to the standard unix (redhat) build guide.
I will write about using the DB creation assistant in the next couple of days.
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