Re: O8I SILENT INSTALL

D wrote:

> Hi, guys.
>
> I have some questions about silent installs using OUI. I have successfully
> installed Oracle8i on Windows NT silently using a response file, but have
> two problems.
>
> 1) Is there anyway to get the silent install to tell me when it's finished?
> Right now I just wait till the CD and hard drive lights stop flashing.
> Since this install will be performed by customers on their sites, this is
> not good.

The silent install was made for computers without monitors. Oracle has not addressed the "adhoc" non-interactive install.

Although I can't find it in the documentation right now, O8i may be non-interactively installed by a Microsoft installation product. The NT specialist that I work with told me he considerred the configuration time worthwhile if we would've been installing more than 100 hundred servers.

We elected to assist the non-DBA, interactive install to 60 servers with screen shots. Ask me in four months how THAT went.

> 2) Is there anyway to do a silent uninstall? I can't find any mention of it
> anywhere. Even when I use the OUI to do a manual uninstall (OUI calls it
> deinstall), it leaves over 200MB of stuff on the computer.

I work most often in the UNIX environment, but I know that the main issue with an uninstall of Oracle is to remove the registry settings. It must be possible to script the removal of those registry settings and then blow away the Oracle directories. No!?

Barth Received on Fri Apr 21 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT