Obtaining Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Installer Starting Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Installer

4-8 Installation Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence

4.3 Obtaining Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Installer

Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Installer is available from the following sources: ■ The Oracle Business Intelligence 11g installation DVD ■ Oracle Technology Network OTN Download the Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Installer .zip files for your operating system from OTN at the following link: http:www.oracle.comtechnologysoftwareproductsmiddleware htdocs111110_fmw.html ■ Oracle E-Delivery Download Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Installer .zip file for your operating system from the Oracle E-Delivery website at the following link: http:edelivery.oracle.com If you download the .zip file from OTN or Oracle E-Delivery, extract the contents to a directory of your choice; this is referred to as the bi_installer_loc.

4.4 Starting Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Installer

To start Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Installer: 1. Open a command window, and do one of the following: ■ If you downloaded and extracted the Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Installer .zip file, access the bi_installer_locDisk1 directory. ■ If you have the Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Installer DVD, insert the DVD into your computer and access the Disk1 directory. 2. Run the following command depending on your operating system: ■ UNIX: .runInstaller.sh -ignoreSysPrereqs Ignore the results of the system prerequisite checks and continue with the installation. -executeSysPrereqs Execute the system prerequisite checks only, then exit. -paramFile file Specify the full path to the oraparam.ini file. This file is the initialization file for the installation program. The default location of this file is Disk1installplatform. -novalidation Disables all validation checking performed by the installation program. -nodefaultinput For the GUI install, several screens have information or default values pre-populated. Specifying this option disables this behavior so that no information or values are pre-populated. Note: On Windows systems, ensure that you do not extract the .zip file to a directory name that contains spaces. Note: Running Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Installer as the root user is not supported. Table 4–1 Cont. Installer Command Line Parameters Parameter Description Installing Oracle Business Intelligence 4-9 ■ Windows: setup.exe

4.5 Installing Oracle Business Intelligence with Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Installer