Client Configuration Manager/Forms5 Network Install
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 09:11:45 -0500
Message-ID: <363B1AA1.5509BA81_at_criticaldata.com>
Has anyone else noticed a disconnect between the doc "Dev Getting Started - Installing Dev" (A57751-01) and the Dev 2.1 CD-ROM?
Specifically, the doc says that when you do client installs you are prompted for:
-Development Install
-Deployment Install
-Custom Install
On my CD-ROM, I don't get the "Deployment Option" just the usual "Complete, Typical, Minimal, Custom" options just like Dev 1.5.
So I followed the doc further to do the install of the Oracle Client Configuration Manager and then hit another problem. How can I get the "Available Clients" list to have some values in it?
Just wanted to find out if anyone else has used the OCCM sucessfully and if so, what version of Dev2 did you use?
I need a network install for a standard client/server environment: Win95
clients
with just the Runtime Forms options.
My fall back approach (as I did in Dev 1.5) is to install the runtime options to a file-server, then export the Win95 registry to a file. Then for each client:
- Remove any Oracle registry entries
- Install Run-time options to C:\orawin95 from CD
- Then remove all products (this gets the Windows DLLs on to the client workstation)
- Import the file server registry file (this will have the ORACLE_HOME on the network (i.e. U:\ORAWIN95)
Make sure the AUTOEXEC.BAT specifies the network path i.e. U:\ORAWIN95\BIN) and reboot.
The nice thing about this procedure is that most files are on the Share and not on the client. The bad thing about it is that you still need to do a run-time install and you need some C:\ free space.
However, this works fine in Dev 1.5, but I would like to switch to OCCM if I could get it to work.
- Dave