Installation guide

Selecting Directories for Your Installation
BEA Products Installation Guide 1-13
Figure 1-1 BEA Home Directory
It depicts only the files and directories required in the BEA Home directory. If you choose to
install the product in the BEA Home directory, you will see additional directories such as
weblogic92. For more information on product directories, see “Understanding the Product
Directory Structure” on page 7-4.
Note: On some UNIX platforms, the installation program does not install the JDK.
During installation of your BEA software, you are prompted to choose an existing BEA Home
directory or specify a path to create a new BEA Home directory. If you choose to create a new
directory, the installation program automatically creates it for you.
Notes: BEA recommends that you do not exceed a maximum of 12 characters when naming
your BEA Home directory. If the name of this directory has more than 12 characters, or
if the directory name is too long and if there are spaces in the directory name, the
CLASSPATH may not be resolved properly.
You can install only one instance of each version of a BEA product in a single BEA
Home directory. For example, you can install only one instance of WebLogic Server 9.2
in a BEA Home directory, but that BEA Home directory may also contain an instance of
WebLogic Server 9.0.
If the BEA Home directory is not empty and it does not contain
registry.xml, or if any
of installation directories are not empty, the following messages will be displayed about
it with the option to continue installation, or return to the directory selection task:
z For BEA Home directory selection task: BEA_HOME directory is not empty. Proceed
with installation?
z For product installation directory(ies) selection task: One or more installation
directories are not empty. Proceed with installation?