Installation guide

Installation Prerequisites
BEA Products Installation Guide 1-9
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System Requirements
The system requirements for your installation are given in the following table.
Temporary Disk Space Requirements
The BEA installation program uses a temporary directory into which it extracts the files necessary
to install the software on the target system. During the installation process, your temporary
directory must contain sufficient space to accommodate the compressed Java run-time
Table 1-1 System Requirements
Component Requirement
Platform configuration A supported configuration of hardware, operating system, JDK, and database is
required. See Supported Configurations at
http://e-docs.bea.com/platform/suppconfigs/index.html.
The Supported Configurations documentation specifies other prerequisites and
recommendations, such as recommended versions of the JDK.
Processor 1-GHz CPU recommended
Hard disk drive A complete installation requires approximately 1.80 GB of disk space.
Memory 1 GB of RAM minimum although BEA recommends 2GB of RAM.
Color bit depth display
and size
For graphical user interface (GUI) mode installation, 8-bit color depth (256 colors) is
required.
For console-mode and silent-mode installation, there is no color bit depth requirement.
JDK The BEA Products installation program requires a Java run-time environment (JRE) to
run. A JRE is bundled in the Windows installation program and in some UNIX
installation programs (those with filenames ending in
.bin). For other UNIX
platforms, the installation program does not install a JDK. Filenames for these
installation programs end in
.jar. To run the .jar installation programs, you must
have the appropriate version of the JDK installed on your system, and include the
bin
directory of the JDK at the beginning of the
PATH variable definition. It is important
that you use a JDK because the installation process assigns values to
JAVA_HOME and
related variables to point to the JDK directory.