This sounds pretty good. Thanks for the ideas. -- Pradeep ________________________________ From: Johnson, George [mailto:George.Johnson@xxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 10:59 AM To: Pradeep Chetal; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: How do folks do quick Oracle installation - Oracle 10gR2 We use cloning. We have a server with all the major revisions or 9 and 10, pre-patched with critical workarounds, all tar'd. We copy over the tar file, unpack and clone in. We can have an RDBMS install done in about 5 mins any given server in the network. Intermediate patches can be rolled into a "cloner", then the cloner can be rolled out, if required on multiple servers. Cloning also ensures that people don't mess up the local server Oracle inventories, a major pet peeve of my OEM installations! Rgds ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pradeep Chetal Sent: 18 March 2009 14:17 To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: How do folks do quick Oracle installation - Oracle 10gR2 We are on Oracle 10gr2 10.2.0.4 with few patches and sometimes we have to install these on multiple machines. What do folks use for quick Oracle installation? Is it runInstaller with multiple steps of upgrades and patches *or* is there a faster way? Thanks, -- Pradeep Pradeep Chetal Sr. Director - Infrastructure Architecture ________________________________ Mformation Technologies Inc. Switchboard: +1 732 692 6200 Visit WWW.MFORMATION.COM and see how the MFORMATION SERVICE MANAGER can help you to transform your business Please consider the environment before printing Visit WWW.MFORMATION.COM and see how the MFORMATION SERVICE MANAGER can help you to transform your business