It will be more work, but still can be done.
Use Win32::TieRegistry in Perl to deal with the registry entries. Jared On Friday 27 September 2002 04:58, Kieran Murray wrote: > Thanks for this Gerardo, > I forgot to mention, but unfortunately this activity will have to > be carried out on NT rather than Unix. I guess it would be more > complicated as the registry and services would come into play aswell. > > Cheers, > Kieran > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 6:14 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > I think it's very possible. Run the Universal Installer once > (interactively). Tar up the stuff under the product directory (all > subdirectories including jre and 9.2.0.1). > > Now you can use the tar file to install to another machine. Write a > wrapper script that untars your image. > > I recommend Perl and the Expect perl module for this type of work. This > combination (Perl with Expect module) makes telnet'ing and ftp'ing a snap. > I haven't tried to do ssh and scp yet via this method but I suspect it's > also possible. > > There are some gotchas to watch out for. > > You have to keep the ORACLE_HOME directory name the same. Don't expect > things to work if you change the directory name. This used to be the case > with 7.x but not any more since 8.1.x. > > If you are setting up web server, then I think you have to figure out where > the host name is "hard-coded" into the config files. We have not had to > worry about this, since we do not set up the web server as part of our > database server installs. > > HTH > Gerardo > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 7:48 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > Hi, > > I've been charged with coming up with automation scripts which will > migration > customer databases from Oracle 7.3.4 to Oracle 9i (35 databases in all). > As the databases aren't huge I was gonna go with the Export/Import option > (rather than MIG utility), > so I'm in the process of writing batch files and sql scripts to automate > this stage of the process. > > I was under the impression that the installation of the 9i software would > be a manual process, > but from the Universal Installer help I see it's possible to run this in > silent mode with response files. > > Has anyone ever used this before and how have you got on? Do you think it > would be possible for > me to come up with scripts to automate this to run on all the client sites > with minimal user intervention (assuming identical file systems)? > > It sounds too good to be true. > > Cheers, > Kieran Murray > CardBASE Technologies Limited� > Crofton Road > Dun Laoghaire > Co Dublin > Ireland -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Jared Still INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
