Re: Mass Oracle installations on many clients

[Quoted] In article <7j0ti3$7ih$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,   rodger_lepinsky_at_hotmail.com wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> We are running Oracle 7.34, and 8.05
> on a Unix server. The clients are Win 95.
> We also have NAL (Novell Application
> Launcher) on Novell.
>
> Many of our clients are at other sites.
> These clients need to have Oracle installed
> correctly.
>
> We are trying to create some kind of
> batch or script file/icon that the user
> can run to ensure a clean consistent
> install on all the clients.
>
> We have looked at Oracle Univeral Installer/
> Oracle Software Packager, and it won't
> work for us.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Regards,
>
> Rodger
>
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Faced with the same problem (on a somewhat smaller scale) my solution [Quoted] ws to perform an Oracle client installation from a 'typcial' desktop. Instead of accepting the default oracle_home of c:\orant, I redirected to a network drive (let's call it x:). When the installation finished, I had the oracle software in x:\orant, and Oracle registry settings in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE that pointed to Oracle_home as x: \orant. I then printed off the registry settings and keyed them into a template in NAL. That template is pushed out to the desktop every time someone logs on. Works like a charm and the users never have to do anything to become an Oracle client. If you don't want to fool with NAL, you could simply export HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE and save the .reg file on x: and have a user 'execute' it to 'install' Oracle on their desktop. There are several other variations you could come up with, but I'm sure you get the idea.

[Quoted] Of course, for this to work, the logon procedure has to guarentee that x: is mapped appropriately, so that everyone's x: is mapped to the same shared drive/directory. BTW, this can be mixed/matched. We run NT Workstation on the desktops, our Oracle servers are on NT Server, and our file servers (where x: is mapped) are Novell.

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