Monday, December 06, 2010

Issue with the silent installation for 11.1.0.7 on Linux

Well, I hit a new error message. I have been doing silent patch installs for years and until today had never seen the following errors:

SEVERE:Values for the following variables could not be obtained from the command line or response file(s): METALINK_USERNAME(MetaLinkUsername) Silent install cannot continue

I got past this one by adding the following to the kickoff of the response command:

./runInstaller -silent -responseFile /path/to/Disk1/response/patchset.rsp METALINK_USERNAME="" METALINK_PASSWORD=""

Then I hit this one:

You may not have enough space on your drive for a successful install.
Do you still want to continue?

I got past this one by adding the following to the command line execution:

-ignoreDiskWarning

So then the command line looked like this:

./runInstaller -silent -responseFile /path/to/Disk1/response/patchset.rsp METALINK_USERNAME="" METALINK_PASSWORD="" -ignoreDiskWarning

This in-turn resulted with this:

The installation of Oracle Database 11g Patch Set 1 was successful.

Thanks and have a great day!

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