Installation guide

Note: As of October 2004, the 9.2.0.6 patchset is available for Windows. However, the 9.2.0.6 clusterware patch is not yet available
as of this publicaon. In the interest of oering a fully tested RAC conguraon, this paper will cover a consistent upgrade to all
9.2.0.5 components. Those wishing to upgrade the database components to 9.2.0.6 instead of 9.2.0.5 should read the release notes
for the 9.2.0.6 patchset for excepons to this procedure.
If you designate local ORACLE_HOME directories on each node, the issue of synchronizing Oracle binary installaon on each node
must be addressed. Since cluster member nodes are idened to Oracle early in the installaon process, the Oracle installaon
process should be able to propagate all required binaries to all cluster nodes, requiring only installaon from one node. This works
well for a two node cluster. However, some problems are occasionally experienced when installing on three or more nodes. For this
reason, if you are installing on three or more nodes, you may want to install on each node individually, for the parcular steps noted
in the installaon instrucons below. The processes for installing from either one node or for installing on each node separately are
included in the instrucons.
Staging Oracle Patches
As a rst step, you will want to create a staging directory to contain the Oracle binary les and patches. It is recommended to locate
the staging directory on an internal directory on the rst server. For example:
E:\oracle_stage
For a two-node install with local ORACLE_HOME directories, most les will be copied to the other node by the Oracle install process.
You will sll have to copy some patch les manually to all nodes. For three or more node installs, you may want to copy all of the les
to each server. If you use a shared ORACLE_HOME, you can avoid this issue. Regardless of whether the soware les will be local or
shared, you might as well download all of the required les and patches to the staging directory at this point, as long as you have
sucient room. This includes:
1. Copy the three Oracle 9.2.0.1 CD data les to disk in the following example locaons:
a. E:\oracle_stage\9201\Disk1
b. E:\oracle_stage\9201\Disk2
c. E:\oracle_stage\9201\Disk3
2. Download the Oracle 9.2.0.5 patch from Oracle Metalink (patch number 3501955) to the following example locaon:
a. E:\oracle_stage\9205\
b. Expand the patch to create the directory E:\oracle_stage\9205\Disk1
3. Download the Oracle CFS and Clusterware patch 9205 from Oracle Metalink (patch number 3483924) to the following
example locaon:
a. E:\oracle_stage\ocfs9205
b. Expand the patch to create the directory E:\oracle_stage\ocfs9205\3575688 (the Oracle internal number for the
patch)
4. Download the Oracle Universal Installer 2.2.0.18 from Oracle Metalink (patch number 2878462) to the following example
locaon:
a. E:\oracle_stage\oui22018
b. Expand the patch to create the directory E:\oracle_stage\oui22018\Disk1