Re: Install patch BEFORE creating databases

On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:12:22 +0200, Michael Schmarck <usenet-michael_at_schmarck.cn> wrote:

>Cristian Cudizio <cristian.cudizio_at_yahoo.it> wrote:
>
>> On 25 Lug, 11:50, Michael Schmarck <usenet-mich..._at_schmarck.cn> wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> On a Solaris 10 Sparc 64bit system, I did a "software only" install
>>> of Oracle 10.2.0.1.0. Now I'd like patch it to 10.2.0.3.0. But how
>>> do I do that?
>>>
>>> I ran "runInstaller" from the patch and pointed it to the directory
>>> where I installed the Oracle 10.2.0.1.0 software. But then I get
>>> an error message telling me, that there already is such a directory.
>>> And if I specify some empty directory, OUI tells me, that there's
>>> nothing to patch in this directory.
>>>
>>> Is it possible to install the 10.2.0.3.0 patch if there's no database
>>> yet available?
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot,
>>>
>>> Michael
>>
>> I've not understood well what goes wrong to you but i can assure you
>> that you can do that.
>
>Okay. And how do you do that? :)
>
>What I did:
>
>- I ran "runInstaller" from the patch.
>- I accepted the default and specified an empty directory
>-> Error
>- As this did not work, I pointed it to the directory where I
> installed 10.2.0.1.0
>-> Error
>
>I uploaded a screenshot showing the error messages - maybe this makes
>it a bit clearer:
>http://www.screenshots.cc/show.php/19072_OracleErrorMessageswhentryingtoinstallPatch.8b.png.html
>
>Michael

You can't change just the path field. You need to change the "Name" to the Name of the ORACLE_HOME that you wish to patch. -Arch Received on Fri Jul 25 2008 - 07:36:03 CDT