Re: HELP needed - Installing Oracle8 with an unattended installation on NT40

Hi

    I had to do the same thing with a VB5 app that used OO4O. What I did was take a look at
what Oracle installed on my machine when I selected SQLNet and OO4O, then slimmed it down as much as possible (took out text files, sample code, help files, etc)... then wrote a custom installer to copy the files over.

    As for the registry changes... I used a utility called NTRegMon available at http://www.sysinternals.com (AWESOME utility) that showed me exactly what the Oracle Installer did to the registry and I just mimicked that in my custom installer. I also had to make sure the path=<drive>:\<oracle_home>\bin was entered in AUTOEXEC.BAT.

    The basic process of it is...

1. VB5 Setup Application has a flag in an .LST (kinda like .INI) that tells it if the app needs Oracle to work.
2. If so, it downloads the custom oracle installer, runs it, then continues with the VB install.

Although..I suppose it would be nicer if you could script the real oracle installer... if you find out..can you please pass me some info (andres.becerra_at_unisys.com)

Ch33rs!
Andres

johnimo_at_hotmail.com wrote in message <6tt96k$8oa$1_at_nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>Hello,
>
>We want to make the installation of Oracle8 unattended so we can integrate
>it, together with InstallShield, into our platform. Our platform is Windows
>NT40. Is there somebody out there who can me tell me anything about the
>Oracle Installer? Is there somebody who has already done an unattended
>installation? I like to know how we can tell the Installer the values of
its
>parameters (e.g. Oracle_Home, Company), so the only thing a user has to do
is
>say "GO" and everything will be installed by our standards.
>
>I am very curious if somebody can help me!!
>
>Thanks very much in advance,
>
>John van de Weem
>Oracle DBA
>
>
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Received on Fri Sep 18 1998 - 13:31:34 CDT