Re: Installer in Silent Mode

Jim,

Oracle do produce the 'Oracle Installers Programmers Reference Guide', available from Oracle Bookshop. Its not part of the standard manuals, but worth getting ;)

Chris

Jim Garbely wrote:
>
> I am trying to automate the installation of Oracle client software (SQL*Net,
> SQL*Plus, ODBC Driver, etc.) so we can easily distribute these programs to
> users via a network job. After mining Oracle's Metalink web site for two
> days, I have found syntax that allows you to run orainst.exe via "silent
> mode". First I create a response file:
>
> orainst /rspdest c:\temp\pware.rsp
>
> which works fine. But when I try to run the installer using the response
> file AND tell it which products to install, the installer just quits before
> it installs anything (it does create the orawin directory). The command I
> use is:
>
> orainst /silent /rspsrc c:\temp\pware.rsp /install orainst,
> sodbc200,rsf71,rsf72,rsf73,net23,plus33
>
> Any ideas as to why this might be happinging? I am running this command from
> a Win95 client that is accessing the Oracle software on an NT 4.0 server. I
> have tried putting the .rsp file on both the client and the server but
> neither works. If I just use the response file without the /install switch,
> it works like a champ only it stops when it gets the product selection
> screen.
>
> I wanna be a park ranger....
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jim Garbely
Received on Thu Mar 04 1999 - 10:10:40 CST