As long as the linux machine already has a hard drive and you can telnet
into it, you could create a remote X session (see man xhost or use something
like xmanager (www.xmanager.com) to create a remote X-window session on a
microsoft machine) and install ProC from a cdRom that you have mounted over
the network.
As far as I am aware you cannot run the installer without X-Window.
-----Original Message-----
From: Julian M Sawkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 11:46 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: DBI/ProC/Oracle/ODBC?
I wonder if anybody's had any experience of trying to connect to an oracle
database from a linux machine without X-windows (ie: unable to run the
oracle
8 installer and hence without ProC).
Does anyone know of a way of achieving this without adding a CDRom, a
half decent monitor and a hard disk to the machine? Can I use ODBC for
instance?
The background is that I have a handful of ex-dos machines which used to
have access to a network directory where an extract from the database was
dumped overnight etc.. and I'd like to make it neater and contain up-to-date
information by linking directly to the database. However, if it forces an
upgrade
of the machines, we'll be left with extract files instead.
Thanks
J
