Silent Installations

The ODBC Client installer provides a command-line option for silent installations on Windows. For example, if you want to install a licensed copy of the ODBC Client in an installation directory named \Program Files\DataDirect\oaodbc81 on a 32-bit machine, you would use the following command:

oaodbc32_win_*version*_setup.exe /s /v"NAME=QA COMPANY=DataDirect SERIAL=EVAL INSTALLDIR=\"C:\Program Files\DataDirect\oaodbc81\" /qn /l*v \"c:\oaodbc32.txt\""

Silent installations are useful for system administrators who want to create a batch file to execute multiple identical installations of the ODBC Client.

Note: The instructions in the following procedure show the installation of the ODBC Client on a 32-bit Windows machine. For installation on a 64-bit Windows machine, use the file name for the 64-bit driver. For clarity, the term ODBC Client as used in this procedure applies to both versions of the ODBC Client.