Silent Install with the 11.2 Oracle Client Installer

Here are the steps to create the response file:

1.  Launch the 11.2 client setup.exe file that comes with the Oracle Client software download.

2.  The "Select Installation Type" screen will come up when the installer is running. Click on
     Custom for the installation type.

3.  Click Next.

4.  On the "Select Product Languages" screen select the language you want to install in by
     highlighting the language and use the arrow keys to select the language.

5.  Click Next.

6.  On the "Specify Installation Location" screen browse to the location of where you would like the
     Oracle Base and Software location to be located.

7.  Click Next.

8.  On the "Available Products Components" screen select all the products you want to include in
     the install. In this case the following products will be selected:

        SQL*Plus
        Oracle Net
        Oracle ODBC Driver
        Oracle Provider for OLE DB
        Oracle Data Provider for .NET
        Oracle Providers for ASP.NET

9.   Click next.

10. Click next on the Perform Prerequisite screen once the prerequisite checks have completed.

11. On the "Summary" screen click on "Save Response File" and provide a file name and location
      to save to.

12. If you click on "Finish" this will complete the custom install installation or exit the installer if you
      do not wish to install the product at this time.


To Install using the response file:

1. Before using the saved response file on another system, edit the file in notepad.exe and make
    any required changes to the directory location for ORACLE_BASE and ORACLE_HOME.

2. Open a command prompt and navigate to the location where your setup.exe is that comes with
    the client software is and pass the following to start the install.


Example:
D:\soft\win32_11gR2_client\client>setup -silent -responseFile D:\soft\oracle/11gR2_client\client\client_custom.rsp