In order for Oracle to read in binary/image documents referenced in import files, . This only works with Oracle 9i or newer and only if the. database is . | SIM Version Installation Instructions SIM Installation Instructions Table of Contents A. Prerequisites 2 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS :. 2 SAVING CONFIGURATIONS . 2 UNINSTALL PREVIOUS SIM INSTALLATIONS 2 INSTALLATION TYPES 3 B. Full Installation for Personal ORACLE . 4 C. Software Only Installation . 7 D. Loading Configurations 9 E. System Configuration Settings . 10 F. Installing Oracle Forms Runtime, Patch 18 . 11 Page 1 4/11/2007 SIM Installation Instructions A. Prerequisites System Requirements: Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP Oracle or higher DBMS STORET Data Entry Module Installed on your machine 64 MB RAM 400 MB free space on a local drive (for SIM tablespace files) Saving Configurations If you wish to save your import configurations from a previous installation of SIM, you must copy these configurations using the Copy/Load Configuration utility in SIM BEFORE running the SIM installation. • Import Configurations for the example files provided with SIM do not need to be copied because they .