Re: Distributing Client Software??

Files can be zipped and transferred, and registry entries can be exported from one registry and imported to another via the command line "regedit -s myfile.reg" (to silently import from a batch file).

Of course, how you find out where each and every entry/file is is the tricky part. I believe there are some commercial product installers/uninstallers that can create a log of every change made during a product install. So you'd get that going, then install the Oracle client, then check the log and try to parcel the whole lot up into a batch file.

"the_DBA" <the_DBA_at_swbell.net> wrote in message news:sC%L6.62$kx3.124680_at_nnrp2.sbc.net...
> All,
>
> I would like to "idiot proof" the installation of Oracle Client
 software
> [on W2K machines]. Ideally, I'd like to circumvent the Oracle Universal
> Installer. I'm not a big Windows user...so... let me speak in UNIX
 terms --
> I'd like to pass in arguments [to OUI] like one would with a HERE document
> (i.e., << EOF ... EOF). Since the OUI is a Java application, I don't
 even
> know if this is possible. Anyway, users would then download/copy the
 Oracle
> client software (win817client.zip) & the install script. Then, they'd
> double-click the install_script, search the Internet, get coffee, discuss
> the plight of the Peregrin Falcon, and BAM! -- the installation would be
> complete... in a perfect world...
> Alternately, I'd like to "tar-up" the client software on a sample W2K
> box, distribute it, and be done with the affair. Users would then simply
> untar on their client machines (e.g., tar xzvf). While I'm not a Windows
> guru, intuition tells me that that's entirely too easy. Sigh! Besides
 the
> paths (which, I imagine, should be configurable via a *.bat file), is it
> possible to automagically (*.bat) set registry keys & the other stuff (if
> any)???
> Again, let me stress that I'm fairly clueless, here. Still, I did a
 bit
> of online searching [via google, oracle, OTN, & MetaLink]... and I'm open
 to
> any suggestions that you may have. One last caveat: I don't want to use
> any third-party distribution tools (i.e.: I can't pay for additional
> licensing/etc).
>
> Many thanks...
>
>
Received on Tue May 15 2001 - 08:36:28 CDT