ORACLE11G R2 on Windows7 Home Premium – 64bit

ORACLE 11G R2 INSTALLATION ON WINDOWS 7 HOME PREMIUM (X86-64BIT)

1. Download relevant files from Oracle Site…

2. Pre-requisites for the installation

                  
Disable firewall and antivirus s/w
                  
Install all OS security patches (if any).
                  
Windows7 Service pack 1 installed( unable  to install without SP)
                  
Considerable memory, swap & storage

Note:   I have seen some people saying without SP they are 
            able to install without any problem.

3. Extract the two zip files you got from the oracle site into Folder1 & Folder2 respectively – Before installing … copy all the folders in Folder2\database\stage\Components to Folder1\database\stage\components

Otherwise you will encounter with the following error – File not found : C:\app\product\…\ WFMLRSVCApp.ear during the installation.

4. Once everything is ready … run the installer program located in Folder1\database\setup.exe

5. Provide your Metalink details

6. Choose the Installation Option – I got to choose the second option ‘Install database software only’ – My setup terminated when choosed the first option – Don’t know why, need to investigate that ( My Assumption is it’s a JVM crash…)

7. Choose the options either for ‘Single instance ‘ or for ‘RAC’ – Ofcourse ours is desktop edition and so … choose ‘Single Instance Database Installation’.

8. Select the Language on which the product will run – ‘English’ our case –

9. Choose the kind of Edition you want to install – In our case we are left with the last option – ‘Personal Edition’

10. Specify Oracle_Base and software location –

11. Now it checks for ‘Prerequisities for the installation’ –

Every time i use to get up to this point … and then the installer terminates after this step ….. leaving an error file(hs_err_pidxxxx.log) in users TEMP directory .

# An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine:
#  EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at 
     pc=0x000007fefde82b2a, pid=6648, tid=5076

VM state:not at safepoint (normal execution)
VM Mutex/Monitor currently owned by a thread: None...
...
...

To my surprise, when tried again for second attempt it worked fine and able to see the next screen – I came to know that this is a known bug , that has been fixed in JDK 6.0 (b92). Since Oracle11g packed with the JDK5 version, so we will encounter with this bug –

So another workaround is – installing the latest JDK6 (b92) and pointing JAVA_ARGS to the latest JRE location –

JAVA_ARGS : -Doracle.installer.jre_loc=C:\new_jdk6_loc\jre6\bin
( i didn’t tried this ..)

12.

13. If everything goes well it starts installing Oracle software ….

14. Finish the setup .

15. Once the setup is finished – create the database using the DBCA tool .. —

So, Oracle11g Release2 on Windows7 installation is almost easy – except that JDK bug – Need to test this on Some Linux flavours as well…….