Oracle Universal Installer...

From: Sebastian Kraus <s.kraus.exp010104_at_moscher.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:39:06 +0200
Message-ID: <bjnd02$i7d$07$1@news.t-online.com>

Good morning!

I originally wanted to simply install an ODBC Driver on a Windows 2000 machine. I was going to http://technet.oracle.com/, and after confirming, that i am not a terrorist and i also don't plan to build chemical or biological weapons with my ODBC Client, i was finally able to download a 1.4 MB sized file.

I happily extracted the EXE file into my TEMP dir, and searched for a setup.exe. As you can imagine, that would be too simple. So I decidet to read the readme. And it said, that I need the Oracle Universal Installer. No problem! I was going another times to http://technet.oracle.com/, and i was searching for an Oracle Universal Installer. One hour later, I was reading in google groups, that i have to install the Oracle 9i Client, which comes with the OUI, and after that I can install my ODBC driver.

Please could anyone confirm, that I have to download _180 MB_ for a software packet, which I don't need, to install my ODBC driver?

best regards
Sebastian Kraus
Germany. Received on Wed Sep 10 2003 - 09:39:06 CDT