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Unattended Installation of 10G [message #293059]

Thu, 10 January 2008 14:24

smokin5s
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Registered: September 2005
Location: Columbus, Ohio

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I have been successful at creating RSP files and getting Oracle to install without requiring the user to input any info...

But I am having an issue with it bringing up a command box and then once the installation is completed, it wants me to press <ENTER>.

We are pushing this out to thousands of machines via SMS and having the user press <ENTER> would be a nightmare as well as most of the installations will take place after hours.

Any idea on how to get rid of the command box and / or not have to press <ENTER>?

Thanks!

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Re: Unattended Installation of 10G [message #293061 is a reply to message #293059]

Thu, 10 January 2008 14:58

ebrian
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How are you executing the command initially?

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Re: Unattended Installation of 10G [message #293062 is a reply to message #293061]

Thu, 10 January 2008 15:00

smokin5s
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Location: Columbus, Ohio

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<Server>\Oracle10g\client\setup.exe -silent -responseFile C:\OraInst\rec.rsp

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Re: Unattended Installation of 10G [message #293065 is a reply to message #293062]

Thu, 10 January 2008 15:07

ebrian
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Have you tried something like:

cmd /c "<Server>\Oracle10g\client\setup.exe -silent -responseFile C:\OraInst\rec.rsp"

or

echo Y |  "<Server>\Oracle10g\client\setup.exe -silent -responseFile C:\OraInst\rec.rsp"

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Re: Unattended Installation of 10G [message #293069 is a reply to message #293059]

Thu, 10 January 2008 15:27

smokin5s
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I don't think echo Y will work since they want you to press ENTER and not Y Sad

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Re: Unattended Installation of 10G [message #293073 is a reply to message #293069]

Thu, 10 January 2008 15:46

ebrian
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You may be able to simply use a '.' then, ie:

echo.|  "<Server>\Oracle10g\client\setup.exe -silent -responseFile C:\OraInst\rec.rsp"

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Re: Unattended Installation of 10G [message #293075 is a reply to message #293059]

Thu, 10 January 2008 15:54

smokin5s
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will this work considering I'm pretty much putting this command into a shortcut and then running it? I'm not dropping to a command prompt first

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Re: Unattended Installation of 10G [message #293079 is a reply to message #293075]

Thu, 10 January 2008 16:37

ebrian
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The echo won't work thru a shortcut, but you could have the shortcut call a batch file that has the full command in it.

So someone is willing to double-click on the shortcut but just not willing to click Enter when it's done?

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Re: Unattended Installation of 10G [message #293080 is a reply to message #293079]

Thu, 10 January 2008 16:49

smokin5s
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That won't work just because we execute it through an automated procedure. None of our users have Admin rights to their machines so we cannot run this as them nor will we have a very high success rate on the deployment if users see a command box... the typical response for users seeing a screen they are not used to is to close it.

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