Re: Help for a clueless newbie Oracle student

Remove both the Enterprise Edition (which works on NT only) and the Personal Edition,
just to make sure you have a clean system, and then reinstall the Personal Edition.
If you installed them in the same Oracle home you are bound to have trouble.

Hth,

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Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
Roy Richardson <royster_at_erols.com> wrote in message news:7sr6dr$7i9$1_at_autumn.news.rcn.net...
> Hello to all, and thanks in advance for reading this, based on the humble
> header.
>
> I'm enrolled in a Oracle class through George Mason University & obtained
> the Oracle 8i media pack from Oracle to use for training purposes. It's
way
> more software than I expected, but... I'm trying to get it to start up,
all
> seems loaded onto a stand alone PC with what should be enough resources
(RAM
> etc). The PC's in our class have icons to start & stop a database we use
> for exercises, these files are found in
>
> c:\orawin95\bin\OSTART80.EXE screen &
> c:\orawin95\bin\OSTOP80.EXE screen
>
> after installing, probably incorrectly, Personal Edition, Enterprise
Edition
> and documentation files, these two key files still don't exist. I've read
a
> small amount of the >200 MB of html documentation, but have taken the
> cowards way out & am asking this newsgroup for help on getting this
monster
> started.
>
> Thanks again for any help.
>
> Roy Richardson
> royster_at_erols.com
>
>
Received on Tue Sep 28 1999 - 16:38:14 CDT