The oraparam.ini
file can be found at <MediaMountPoint>/install/oraparam.ini
. It includes definition of where the JRE environment will be taken from, which platforms are supported, and other basic validations. This file is not supposed to be modified by the user, unless explicitly requested by Oracle support. It has a general [Oracle] section where the basic OUI start-up environment is defined. There is another section named [Certified Versions] where the list of the Oracle supported platforms for the specific software distribution are supported, and other optional sections that define the particularities of each supported platform.
You can start OUI with a different oraparam.ini
file. This started in Oracle 10g when Oracle Enterprise Linux first appeared as a valid platform. The Linux distro appeared when Oracle 10g R2 was already in the market. People who installed 10gR2 on this platform surprisingly found that this Oracle OS was not a supported platform. Oracle...