RE: Oracle Silent Installs and Response files...

2003-01-20 Thread Brian McGraw
Aha... Proof! Here is a response file that I use for silent installs of the Oracle 817 client. It installs the bare essentials that we use here - SQL*Plus, JDBC Drivers, Net8 essentials, and the OCI layer - onto an individual PC. One interesting note: I could not get the 817 installer to use

Re: Oracle Silent Installs and Response files...

2003-01-17 Thread Jared . Still
I've heard rumors of people getting it to work. Some have claimed they have. When asked to share their response files, I received nothing. I once spent several hours attempting to setup a working response file. No joy. It's in the same class as bigfoot: several sightings, but the only photos

Re: Oracle Silent Installs and Response files...

2003-01-17 Thread Joseph S Testa
I'd have to agree w/Jared, its more like vaporware ;) joe I've heard rumors of people getting it to work. Some have claimed they have. When asked to share their response files, I received nothing. I once spent several hours attempting to setup a working response file. No joy.

RE: Oracle Silent Installs and Response files...

2003-01-17 Thread Rodrigues, Bryan
Greg, If you are upgrading to Oracle 8.1.7.4 on a hp-ux server without an X-term and trying to use silent install to get around it, don't do it. A DBA I work with was trying to do it and ran into issues. I researched it on metalink and found a thread that listed 3 bugs associated with this

Re: Oracle Silent Installs and Response files...

2003-01-17 Thread Jay Hostetter
Greg, I have response files for our client installs (Win2k and WinNT) for 8.1.6. It took several hours of experimenting before I got it to work. Haven't tried it on Unix or with database installs. I basically took the example response file and just tweaked it a bit. Let me know if you