All available product strings needed for the DEPENDENCY_LIST can be found in the file ../stage/products.xml Read More

What a nightmare what a totally unprofessional company, what headaches have been experienced due to rubbish quality control. Let me see if I have it right You can capture a custom install in a … Read More

What a nightmare what a totally unprofessional company, what headaches have been experienced due to rubbish quality control. Let me see if I have it right You can capture a custom install in a … Read More

We where required to deploy orcale 8,9 and oracleNT (forms) to all users. Multiple homes etc you can image the headace. Heres what we did. Used wise to package oracleNT, left it on the comput… Read More

Important note for silent removal of the product: After you have applied patch 9.2.0.6, you cannot uninstall anything with the Universal Installer on the local disk, nor with the one in the sou… Read More

Oracle 9.2 client install using Oracle installer for anyone who like us is still a few versions behind. These were installed successfully via batch file under SMS2003. Thanks to all of you who… Read More

Trevgf - Thanks for you comments on building a MSI install. The problem with self registration can also be solved by specifying the order in which the dlls are registered. In my install the npj… Read More

If using Oracle Universal Installer 2.3 or higher console output can be suppressed with Setup.exe -noconsole. Example for unattended installation with response file: Setup.exe -responsefile <… Read More

The Oracle Installer has some side effects that are worth pointing out: On a NTFS 5.0 filesystem ACL inheritance is turned off for the OraHome directory. If you depend on this like I do you wi… Read More

Dcheng makes a good point. I noted the syntax errors in the .rsp files after doing a record and only getting pieces of the products installed. The template wasn't real useful because it's… Read More

A couple things to be aware of when using the Oracle Universal Installer that comes with 9.2.0.1: 1. If you record a response file from a Custom installation and then try to use that response… Read More

Oracle 9i2 Client Install by MSI using Wise 3.52 on a vanilla windows XP machine logged in as administrator. (ghost image taken so can always go back to this as starting point) (1) Copied orac… Read More

DEINSTALL-To deinstall an automated Oracle 9i Client installation you can use the following command: <SetupFilesPath>\setup.exe -deinstall -silent -RESPONSEFILE <ResponseFilePath>\<ResponseFile… Read More

Automated 9i Client installation that includes all client components. An automated Oracle 9i Client installation can be created by running the Oracle Universal Installer against a response fil… Read More

Record a custom Oracle installation to a response file. A custom installation of the Oracle Client can also be created by using the record method. With this method you simply launch the OUI (… Read More

Silent Installation of Oracle 9i Client This proved to be relatively easy using the response files supplied on the CD and distributed using SMS 2.0. Only trap is the reponse files don't work co… Read More