I handled the 11G package with the ODT plugin package by doing a full repackage into an MSI. It was not easy, and was a long and drawn out process, however the benefits were fantastic. All our … Read More

This Batch File worked well for me. Got it from this website. ----------------- @ECHO OFF ECHO Oracle 10g R2 Client 10.2.0.3 Client (FULL).. SET OPTIONS= SET OPTIONS=ORACLE_HOME=%SYSTEMDRIVE%… 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

-waitforcompletion -nowait -noconsole -force -silent -responseFile <file> I didn't have any luck with the -waitforcompletion switch when I was using the setup.exe, you may have better luck wit… Read More

When deploying a patch like 10.2.0.3.0, you should refrain from recording your own response file for the patchset. Instead use the short and simple sample response file provided in disk1\respon… 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

That little tip about using the alternative setup.exe/oui.exe from the install directory just fixed a problem I'd been having for about a week (i.e. how to get the package script to wait before… Read More

You can create a respons file with these parameters: setup -record -destinationFile {response_file_name} Read More

I found that the -waitforcompletion parameter only worked when launching the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI.EXE) directly. SETUP.EXE does not seem to use it. OUI.EXE is found in the Install folder. 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

On German Windows XP there is a problem creating response files. They lack the sections containing language selection and selected products to install. To get around this, you will have to mod… 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

setup.exe -nowait -force -silent -responseFile xyz.rsp -nowait closes the console window when the silent installation completes, which would otherwise wait for input. -force allows install to… Read More

If you do decide to repackage the 8.x client into .msi format, pay particular attention to ODBC components. eWall gives some very valuable tips on this page. This and some threads here at App… 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