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Getting Started with Your Documentation

Your Oracle documentation set is provided in both HTML and PDF formats on two CDs, both included in your CD Pack and labeled as follows:

• Oracle9i Online Documentation Library CD-ROM for Windows
  
  
• Oracle9i Online Documentation Library CD-ROM for Windows - Installation CD

Use the first CD-ROM to browse the library from the CD or copy files directly to a local system. Use the second CD-ROM to install the documentation library with Oracle Universal Installer. The contents of the library are the same on both discs.

The library includes a Web-based search tool that enables you to search for information about a particular product, parameter, file name, procedure, error message, or other area of interest. The search tool also makes it possible to construct a "virtual book" drawn from the complete documentation library, but consisting only of topics and procedures relevant to your needs. The library also includes a comprehensive Master Index, as well as lists of SQL and PL/SQL keywords, initialization parameters, catalog views, and data dictionary views.

Instructions for installing the library and viewing its contents are in three README files at the root level of the documentation CD-ROMs:

• README.htm
  
  
• README.pdf
  
  
• README.txt

The contents of the three files are identical; only the format differs.

The following guides are not included on Oracle9i Online Documentation Library CD-ROM for Windows:

• Oracle9i Database Installation Guide for Windows and Oracle9i Database Release Notes for Windows

  To access these documents before installation, open start_here.htm in the \doc directory on the component CD-ROM. To access these documents after installation, choose Start > Programs > Oracle - HOME_NAME > Release Documentation or open start_here.htm in the ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_HOME\doc directory on your hard drive.

• Oracle Migration Workbench documentation

  The latest version can be viewed at: http://otn.oracle.com/.

• Oracle Fail Safe and Oracle Real Application Clusters Guard documentation

  These documents are on the Oracle Fail Safe and Oracle Real Application Clusters Guard product CD-ROM.

  Note: Oracle Fail Safe and Oracle Real Application Clusters Guard are not supported on Windows XP.