matt_hallam_at_hotmail.com (Matthew Hallam) wrote in message news:<b0b53d87.0303250232.6c541eeb_at_posting.google.com>...
> We are trying to deploy an application to quite a few Windows 2000
> clients.. all it needs is an ODBC connection to the backend Oracle 9i
> database. Currently the only way to install the Oracle ODBC drivers is
> to install about 300Mb worth of Oracle Client software - I was
> wondering if anyone knew of a "lighter" way to do this.. ie just being
> able to install the drivers and its dependant Sql Net (the Oracle
> installer seems to insist on many more dependencies, hence the bulk)
There's no way to do this that's supported by Oracle. I suspect that
there's no way to do this period, because the ODBC driver has
dependencies on a number of components besides SQL Net. I believe
that the OUI is pretty accurate in determining what the actual
dependencies are. There may be help files and documentation that gets
installed that you could delete, but I'm not sure how much space that
will save you.
There are third parties that sell "thin" ODBC drivers (DataDirect is
one) if you have a requirement to slim down the installation.
