Specify the following information, then click Next:
The full path to directory where the Installer should place inventory information (the Oracle inventory directory)
The name of the UNIX group that should own the Oracle inventory directory (the Oracle inventory group)
See the following sections for more information about the values that you must specify.
Specify the full path to the Oracle inventory directory (also called the oraInventory directory). The Installer uses this directory to store information about all of the Oracle products installed on this system.
Note: The Installer creates the directory you specify if it does not exist.
Use the following guidelines when choosing the directory:
The Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA) standard recommends that you use the format /mount_point/app/username when creating the Oracle base directory, where mount_point is a mount point directory and username is the user name of the user that installs the software. For example:
/u01/app/oraInventory
If you set the ORACLE_BASE environment variable before starting the installation, then the Installer suggests the following default path:
$ORACLE_BASE/../oraInventory
If you did not set the ORACLE_BASE environment variable before starting the installation, then the Installer suggests the following default path:
HOME/oraInventory
In this example, HOME is the login home directory of the user that started the Installer. Unless you are installing the software in a subdirectory of the home directory, Oracle recommends that you change this value to specify the previously recommended value.
Select the name of the UNIX group that will own the Oracle Inventory directory.
Primary group is the default selection for inventory group.
Only UNIX users that are members of this group can update, install, or remove Oracle software using Oracle Universal Installer. Oracle documentation uses the group name oinstall to identify this group.