Developer 6i Automated Installation Troubleshooting
585114Jul 3 2007 — edited Jul 11 2007I'm hoping someone out there will have some experience/insight with this...
After much frustration, I have put together an automated installation for Forms and Reports 6i which starts up correctly and appears to begin the installation process. However, after running, the programs do not appear to have installed.
Here's what I did:
I went to the cmd shell and typed
orainst.exe /prd \install\nt.prd /rspdest xxxx.rsp
(where xxxx = FormsRuntime or ReportsRuntime, depending on which component i installed in that session)
I then went through the custom installation process as I normally would. This generated .rsp files that should have contained my install settings (though when I checked them they looked rather sparse).
In the same manner, I created another response file from patch 17 orainst.exe called Patch.rsp.
With my response files created, I wrote a batch script that looked like this:
orainst.exe /silent /prd install\nt.prd /rspsrc \ReportsRuntime.rsp /install w32rrun60
orainst.exe /silent /prd install\nt.prd /rspsrc \FormsRuntime.rsp /install w32frun60
orainst.exe /silent /prd install\nt.prd /rspsrc \patch.rsp /install w32frun60
orainst.exe /silent /prd install\nt.prd /rspsrc \patch.rsp /install w32rrun60
orainst.exe /silent /prd install\nt.prd /rspsrc \patch.rsp /install w32grun60
When I run the batch script the oracle installer (not OUI by the way) splash pops up as if an installation process is beginning, but it quickly disappears. It does this five times (one for each component) in a row. Afterword when I go to use the software it is nowhere to be found!
Am I making a mistake in my batch file? Maybe a syntax error? Is there something else that could be wrong?
I'm using Windows XP Pro (with patch 17, so it is compatible and normally works just fine) with Developer 6i.
Any help is much appreciated!
Madrid and metalink helped me get this far, now I just need a little troubleshooting support to finish the job.