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From: "David A. Owens" <daveo@criticaldata.com>
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Subject: Client Configuration Manager/Forms5 Network Install
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 09:11:45 -0500
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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:

1) Remove any Oracle registry entries
2) Install Run-time options to C:\orawin95 from CD
3) Then remove all products (this gets the Windows DLLs
   on to the client workstation)
4) 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