I have installed Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 on Windows 2003 successfully. Installation went smooth with no errors from the 1st time :)
I have done a single node (single user) installation as follows:
Hardware & Software Specifications:
- Intel Pentium 4, CPU 3.2 GHz
- 2 GB of RAM
- 300 GB Hard Drive
- Windows 2003 with Sevice Pack 1
Installation Steps:
1) Install Windows 2003 Server.
2) Set 'Computer Name' as well as 'Domain Name'.
3) Create a new user 'hsawwan' and make this user a member of:
- Administrators (local user)
4) Install Visual C++ 8.0 (Which is included in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005) in 'C:/VCPlus' -- Make sure not to install VC++ in a directory that contains spaces.
5) Download 'Cygwin' and install the required packages as listed in Note: 414992.1 (Using Cygwin to Maintain Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 on Windows). Install 'Cygwin' in 'C:/cygwin' -- Make sure not to install 'Cygwin' in a directory that contains spaces.
6) GNUMake is not required when using 'Cygwin' since it comes as a part of the 'Cygwin'.
8) No JDK installation is required, JDK 5.0 (java version "1.5.0_08") is bundled with Oracle Applications R12 installation.
9) Set Up the Stage Area:
Stage Area (C:/Stage12) requires a 26 GB hard disk space.
Extract the zip files (25 files) which have been downloaded from (
http://edelivery.oracle.com). Nothing special to do since the extracted files will create the stage area directory structure by itself. You should see the following structure under 'C:/Stage12' once you are done with the files extraction:
- startCD > Disk1
- oraAppDB > (Disk 1 to Disk 35)
- oraApps > (Disk 1 to Disk 7)
- oraAS > (Disk 1 to Disk 2)
- oraDB > (Disk 1 to Disk 3)
10) Start the installation:
C:/> cd Stage12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz
C:/Stage12/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz> RapidWiz.cmd
The installation wizard is similar to 11.5.10 RapidWiz. For 'VC++' and 'Cygwin' I have provided the following paths:
s_MSDEVdir=C:/VCPlus/VC
s_MKSdir=C:/cygwin/bin
- It took almost 3 hours to install everything
- Total space required to install Vision instance is 153 GB