Re: Install-Package for ODBC-access to an Oracle 7 database

Just a note: There is a way to make your registry changes automaticly. You may create a somethinerother.reg file which contains all the keys and values you wish to add or change in the registry. Then, runnng this file will make the changes to the local registry.

In order to see what values need to be placed in this file you can do the following.
1. run regedit and export the registry to a text file. 2. run the oracle installer -- install the products you want and allow it to make the changes to your registry.
3. run regedit again -- export the registry to a different filename. 4. from a dos prompt, use file compare, "FC 1stExportedRegistyFile 2ndExportedRegistyFile > DifFile.txt"
5. Look in "DifFile.txt" and use the info there to create your .reg file. Find and examine an existing .reg file on your system and emulate that syntax. 6. Zip the .reg file in with the others and run it to make the registry changes after unzipping the Oracle files.

HIH,
-Ian

Franziska Doering wrote:

> Hi to all,
>
> I'm trying to create an installation package for our users here. The goal is
> to have everything (Sqlnet, ODBC, Configuration) in one executable file.
>
> We tried to use the Software Manager by Oracle, but all Hosts had the status
> "unavailable" and our local Oracle Support here couldn't help.
>
> Another way could be to use WinZip SelfExtractor and to zip all necessary
> files, but then I have to update the registry by myself and this is pretty
> dangerous. Does anybody has a better idea? Or - that would be really
> wonderful - has such a package already?
>
> Any help is very, very welcome.
>
> Franziska Doering
> Hewlett Packard, Germany
> mailto:franziska_doering_at_hp.com
Received on Tue Feb 02 1999 - 17:59:07 CET