installing oracle applications 11i on windows xp

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Installing Oracle Applications 11i on Windows

XP Professional

there is ton of stuff out there on the net on this topic, But I want to add this one in the repository.

I have done the installation and took the screenshots and wanted to assist others who want toinstall at their home/work on their laptop/VMWare etc.

Lets start then

Objective: Need to install Oracle 11i on Windows XP Professional

OS: Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2

System hardware: Intel Pantium Dual @ 1.60GHz

Memorey: 2.99GB (2 or 1GB would also work)

Hard Disk Space: 150GB (100GB would also work)

NIC Card: One (could be wireless or wired does not matter)

Domain: WORKGROUP(computer does not need to be part of domain but we will fake that

computer is part of domain by changing hosts file)

Oracle Applications Software: Oracle Applications 11i Release 10.2 Media Pack for windows(32-bit)

Lets show you what it look like on my end:


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Windos XP Professional Service Pack 2

Oracle Application Selection 1


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Step 3. Install Perl Version 5.8 or later, I installed 5.10 (Download Active State Perl MSIinstaller)

Note: Install it on C:\Perl (This is the default location anyway)

Active State Perl 5.10 installed on C:Perl

Step 4. Install CYGWIN (UNIX utilities to run under Windows)

Note: Install it under C:\cygwin

CYGWIN installed under C:cygwin

Step 5. Adding Domain Name by editing C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file


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Note: My IP is 192.168.1.2 and name of computer is Nimra and I just chosen MyDomain asdomain

HOSTS file entry for domain name

Step 6. Start the Applications installation process

Note: rapidwiz is in StartCD\Disk1\rapidwiz directory just double click rapidwiz

To make the installation easier and smooth, I have chosen Express Installation, if you havefollowed the above instructions, you should fill Express configuration information as follow

Express Configuration information


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Step 7. Pre-requisites checkup

Note: If everything goes smooth, you will see the following screen

Pre Check

Step 8. completing installation

Note: After couple of hours (actually it took 6 hours on my Western Digital 300GB USB

External drive) the following screen should welcome you


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Installation successfull confirmation

Step 9. Login to Oracle Applications to make sure it was installed successfully

Note: The default user name and password is sysadmin/sysadmin

login information: http://computername.domain:8000

user name: SYSADMIN

Password: SYSADMIN

Login to E-Business Suite


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This is the just th overall procedure in order to install Oracle Applications on Windows

installing oracle applications 11i on windows xp

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