Re: Installer Question

Mike wrote:
> Thanks Frank...
>
> So other than manually running the installer and selecting deinstall
> products, there is no other way of automating deinstalling the 8.x
> version?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mike...

If you **ARE** familiar/comfortable with DOS/Registry database/Service Controller then you can write your own batch script to do it from OS. Assuming there is only one Oracle client home on the machine... here are few pointers,

1. Stop and remove any Oracle related services. Names almost all start with "Oracle.....".
2. Query Registry values for HKLM\Software\Oracle\[inst_loc] and HKLM\Software\Oracle\[Oracle_Home]. Store these values in a e.g. variable.
3. Remove the registry key and all subkeys at HKLM\Software\Oracle
4. Remove directories pointed to by in step 2

That's all.

You can download some of the NT resource kit utilities from http://www.dynawell.com/support/Reskit/winnt.asp to make it all a bit easy.

1. Reg.exe (For registry)
2. Sc.exe (For services)

Find.exe or Findstr.exe come standard with XP. Above utilities may also come standard with XP. If you are familiar with scripting... you are probably looking at couple of hours work.

Regards
/Rauf Received on Thu Apr 07 2005 - 09:37:59 CDT