Installing Support Plus from local disk

[Haitham Hamad]

I have a remote server where I need to apply the support plus patches before installing Oracle software. The Oracle CD will be mounted on the CD-ROM so I need to install the support plus from local disk.
Before installation day, Can I mount the Support Plus CD and copy it (cp -r ) to a local directory and then swinstall from the local directory (At that time, the CD drive will have the Oracle CD mounted)? I understand that the CD already has the software as a depot so no need to swreg or swcopy
Any other alternatives?

[Pete Randall]

No, cp -r will not likely work. Use swcopy to copy all the required patches into a depot. The default depot is /var/spool/sw and I usually leave it at that. Then, when you install, point swinstall at /var/spool/sw and you will see all the patches.


Pete

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

you can mount the support plus cd locally and export it and nfs mount at the remote server, install the patches, and then install oracle.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Haitham Hamad]

Just a verification. All this work in on one server. The CD drive and the local disk are local to that remote server

[Sanjay_6 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I think what you want to do is,

on the remote server, mount the support plus cd, cp -r everything to a local directory on that server, unmount the cd. On the day of installation use the local directory to install the support plus patches and install oracle from the cd drive.

My belief is you can do that as long as the cp -r process copies everything from the support plus cd to the local directory on the remote server.

The only benefit you would get by doing a swreg would be that while you want to install the support plus patches from that local directory, the directory would show up as a depot in the swinstall screen, else you'll have to remember the location and type it in the path. Mention that it would be a local directory. It is not a must to register the local directory as a depot.

If you register it as a depot, you will have to unregister it if you want to delete the directory after you have used it to clean things properly.

Hope this helps.

regds

[DCE]

Why not apply the support plus patches ahead of time? (unless a reboot is required)

Also, as stated earlier, if you an additional system on your network with an available cd drive, you can place the support cd in that systems drive and NFS mount it to the system being patched, yhus effectively "adding" another cd drive to the system.