Cloning(runInstaller -createGoldImage) new oracle home with goldimage - 19c
Go to existing oracle home (A new oracle home can be created with latest RU patch applied so that gold image has latest RU) ./runInstaller -createGoldImage -destinationLocation /home/oracle This will start wizard and complete the image creation automatically. Wizard will show the status This will create image in a zipped format in the /home/oracle directory ex: /home/oracle/19_hm_2/db_home_2021-09-14_11-42-14AM.zip extract the newly created image.zip file in the target location to create a new oracle home cd /home/oracle mkdir 19_hm_2 cd 19_hm_2 unzip /home/oracle/19_hm_2/db_home_2021-09-14_11-42-14AM.zip pwd /home/oracle/19_hm_2 then run the runInstaller from the newly extracted home (target home) ./runInstaller -silent -debug -force oracle.install.option=INSTALL_DB_SWONLY UNIX_GROUP_NAME=dba ORACLE_HOME=/home/oracle/19_hm_2 ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle oracle.install.db.InstallEdition=EE oracle.install.db.DBA_GROUP=dba oracle.install.db.OPER_GROUP=dba oracle.install.db.OSBACKUPD