Staging Area activity for R12 (12.0.4)

Contents:
Start Disk 1 Disk
RDBMS 1 Disk
Database 8 Disk
Tools 1 Disk
Appl_top 2 Disk

Operating System

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (2.6.18-53.el5xen)

Memory Configuration

RAM 16 GB
HDD 146 GB

Stage Path

/media/R1204start/Disk1/rapidwiz/adautostg.pl

Steps to be followed while creating Staging Area

1) Login as root user
2) Verify the Perl version (perl –version)
3) Make sure that sufficient space is available in the particular mount point where you want to create staging area.
4) Copy all the contents in Start Disk to local HDD and start executing the perl script.
5) After executing the perl script it prompts you to give a directory where the media is to be staged (for example: To create stage area at /u01/StageR12 enter /u01) : /u01
6) The stage area will be created at /u01/StageR12
7) Do you use AutoMount to mount/umount the media y/n [y] : n
8) Enter the entire mount command [mount –t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom] : (just press enter)
9) Enter the umount command [umount /mnt/cdrom] : (just press enter)
10) Choose the components you want to stage (for example : 1,2,3,4,5)
Press 1 (complete Oracle Applications 10g, Database, 10.1.2, 10.1.3, APPL & COMN)
11) Insert the valid labeled DVD as and when it prompts you.
12) By doing so Staging Area will be created.
13) The top-level staged directory will look like StageR12, with sub-directories startCD, oraApps, oraDB, oraAS, and oraAppDB.

Tips:

1) After completion of Disk 1 in appl_top, it prompts you to insert the second Disk at that time just press enter (in your keyboard) the staging process will be continued. Later it asks for Dis2 then insert the Disk which is labeled as Appl_top Disk 2. Staging area will continue as it was doing.
2) Total Space used for Staging is 36 GB.
3) Total time taken is 1 and half hour.
4) After creating Staging Area, move all the contents into an external HDD so that it will be stored permanently to avoid data loss on local HDD.