h3. List of DVDs: #1 DVD - SAP NETWEAVER 04: (51030843) ** Support Release 1 ** ** Installation Master DVD ** #2 DVD - SAP NETWEAVER 04: (51030764) 0.1. 0.2. Support Release 1 0.3. 0.4. SAP Unicode Kernel 6.40 0.5. 0.6. Oracle 0.7. #3 DVD - SAP NETWEAVER 04: (51030724) 0.1. 0.2. Support Release 1 0.3. 0.4. SAP Web AS Java 0.5. 0.6. SAP Netweaver Developer Studio 0.7. 0.8. IGS 0.9. #4 DVD - SAP NETWEAVER 04: (51030721) 0.1. 0.2. Support Release 1 0.3. 0.4. Installation Export 0.5. #5 DVD - SAP NETWEAVER 04: (51030723) 0.1. 0.2. Support Release 1 0.3. 0.4. Netweaver Components 0.5. h3. List of CDs: 0.1. 0.2. Oracle 9.2 Linux version 0.3. I copied all the DVDs into /DVD_Dumps /DVD_Dumps/XI_SapInst_DVD (DVD#1,51030843) /DVD_Dumps/UnicodeKernelDVD (DVD#2,51030764) /DVD_Dumps/JavaDVD (DVD#3,51030724) /DVD_Dumps/ExportDVD (DVD#4,51030721) /DVD_Dumps/NWComponentsDVD (DVD#5,51030723) Also, I copied the oracle installation setup into /OracleInstallation/Disk1 /OracleInstallation/Disk2 /OracleInstallation/Disk3 h3. My initial problem The first problem that I faced with Fedora core 3 linux was with it's Java. I was not able to run the installer or any swing applications and the java path was not on /usr/java. So, I installed sun java 1.4.2 for linux, created a soft link to /usr/java, set the JAVA_HOME variable to /usr/java and added it to PATH variable. Then I deleted the softlinks from /bin/java, /usr/bin/java and created a new softlink for /usr/java/bin/java in /bin and /usr/bin. I hope all the pre-requisites for XI installation were done. I copied all the DVDs and CDs into the laptop’s hard disk for convenience. So I started my XI installation with central instance. h2. Central Instance installation h2. Database Instance installation I set the following system variables because it caused some problems in later part of installation. #LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/oracle/DXI/920_32/lib/:/sapmnt/SXI/exe/ #export LD_LIBRARY_PATH #SAPSYSTEMNAME=SXI #export SAPSYSTEMNAME #PATH=$PATH:$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH #export $PATH The above mentioned is for bash shell, the GNU version of the standard shell (the Bourne-Again shell). I ran the same setup file and selected the database instance installation. I just clicked next & continued with the following settings, SAP System ID: SXI Database ID: DXI When I reached the screen below,