Oracle Installation fails with OUI-10133: Invalid staging area

Problem Description
While installing oracle on my windows machine it fails with the message,
OUI-10133: Invalid staging area. There are no top level components for Windows NT, Windows 2000 available for installation in this staging area.

On linux system this message is like,
OUI-10133: Invalid staging area. There are no top level components for Linux available for installation in this staging area.

Cause of the problem
There are many causes by which this problem can happen.

1)The product.xml directory is not found and hence the problem occurs. In the oraparam.ini the source location is specified to product.xml but no product.xml exist in the stage directory.

2)Someone has deleted the products.xml file from its location and installer could not find it.

3)You have downloaded oracle from e-delivery.oracle.com which contains three zip files and you extracted three zip files into different locations.

4)The staging area i.e stage folder is corrupted.

5)The media is corrupted.

Solution of the Problem
1)Open oraparam.ini configuration file which resides in the install directory both in windows and linux.

2)Within the file you will see there is SOURCE parameter and within it the location of products.xml is specified.

3)Go to that location and be sure that products.xml exist. There might be several reasons that installer could not find any. Suppose you copied oracle software from network and it is not fully copied. Someone deleted file from stage directory.

4)If you download zipped file of oracle software from e-delivery.oracle.com for 11g, then there will be three zip file. Unzip those three files into the same directory and then start installing the software.

5)After downloading software do cksum on source and verify with cksum in the OTN.

6)Get a fresh copy of oracle software and install.

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