Re: Oracle packaging with other application

There are other no-nos...

1. Licensing - an issue ? are you allowed ship oracle ? ... Are you allowed ship subsets....
2. Support - a subset - when calling support telling them it's a cut-down version... Hoo Boy thats gonna be a short phone call.
3. Murphy's law implies that the your next problem will need something off the missing files.
4. Ship the damn thing on a DVD - that's what they're for. "Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:ah4k9b$8ub$1_at_lust.ihug.co.nz...
   > Not quite the same issue, Daniel, I think.
   >
   > From memory, each of the three Oracle installation CDs comes with just one
   > or two massive staging files, with everything tucked inside them. I think
   > our original poster wants a way of removing things like all the sample
   > databases (as an example) *before* installing Oracle, so that only 1 (or
   2)
   > Oracle installation CDs need to be shipped with her product.
   >
   > As far as I know, there's no way to achieve such a thing. The installation
   > even of a minimum system still asks for all three CDs (albeit, number 2 is
   > in the drive for less time than it takes me to sip some tea), and I know
   of
   > no way of 'unpacking' the supplied installation media, and then re-packing
   > it in your own, cut-down, distribution. Even if it could be done, it all
   > sounds rather illegal to me.
   >
   > I think Cathy just has to grin and bear it, and ship 3 Oracle CDs. Put up
   > her own product price to cover for the inconvenience, I guess!
   >
   > Regards
   > HJR
   >
   > "Daniel Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message
   > news:3D35CDC1.62FBEF4E_at_exesolutions.com...
   > > Cathy wrote:
   > >
   > > > Our company develop applicaiton software and we ship our application
   > > > with Oracle databaser server together.
   > > >
   > > > With the upgrading of Oracle from 7 to 9i, Oracle grows dramatically.
   > > > As I know Oracle 9i for sun solaris has 3 CDs and minimum installation
   > > > through Oracle installer would more than 2G. But the only components
   > > > we need is just Oracle database. We do not need those java, xml or
   > > > other fancy stuff.
   > > >
   > > > So it is getting more difficult for us to packaging Oracle database
   > > > server with our application because of Oracle's huge size.
   > > >
   > > > I would like to know does anybody have the same situation and how do
   > > > you resolve the issue?
   > > >
   > > > Any comment would be appreciated.
   > > >
   > > > Cathy
   > >
   > > First of all, you could install Oracle with the "MINIMUM" setting rather
   > > than the full content of all 3 CDs. If you don't need the Apache web
   > > server don't install it. If you don't need the myriad files in
   directories
   > > with names like "SAMPLE", "DEMO", "DOCS" either don't install or remove.
   > >
   > > 9i can pretty easily be taken down to the 1GB level. Less if you invest
   > > some effort.
   > >
   > > Daniel Morgan
   > >
   >
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