Install Oracle Developer Forms 6i with InstallShield 2009 Pro
Hello,
I spent the last couple of days in reading the user guide, white papers, installscript reference guide and so on, but I'm stuck on this...
What I want to do is to start a silent installation (with a response file) of Oracle Forms 6i. My idea was to aks the user for the oracle settings (home and path), save them in a response file and execute the setup.exe from the oracle installation with this file.
My first problem is that I don't know where to place my oracle installation files (there is no .MSI package for this). :confused: Second - how to request the settings from the user and save them?
Are sure this is a legal to add any Oracle installation package to your installation? As I know Forms 6i - this is a developer environment, why do you want to install it with your product? Does Forms have any deployment package for your purposes?
Anyway, there are two ways to use external product: 1. Ask it like a prerequisite: 1.1. Verify if Forms is installed (generally you can find info in registry) - if not, ask to execute Forms setup (\Forms6isetup\setup.exe> 1.2. During your setup ask all necessary parameters and configure your environment using script or oracle tools command line.
2. Execute it like a silent installation with your parameters 2.1. During your setup ask parameters (how to do this? - depends on installshield project type you choose) 2.2. Last step of your installation - > Execute Forms setup with parameters in silent mode
