Re: Personal Oracle8i installation

Here it is again

Apologies if this is a repeat message. I have just found the following information, I have not tried it as of yet though!

Oracle 8.1.5 Personal Edition
Oracle does not support installing version 8.1.5 PE into Windows Millennium.
As an unsupported workaround, you may add the following line to the [compatibility95] section of win.ini prior to installation:

Jrew=0x00080000

After setup is complete, Oracle will recommend a reboot. There is one additional step necessary prior to reboot; Oracle may add a non-standard path statement to the autoexec.bat file. Please modify this SET PATH statement to use short-filenames if you find a quoted LFN string represented as part of the path. You can confirm that the path was merged successfully into the registry after reboot by examining the PATH variable in the registry at
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\Environment

Symptoms of a missing Oracle path statement in the registry are that Net8 Easy Config will not launch.

Please note that Oracle does not support the use of this product in Windows ME, but have authorized these workarounds for testing purposes only.

In article <3A971ED4.B0F965EA_at_mediaone.net>, Ron Johnston <rjohnston_at_mediaone.net> writes
>Sean,
>Regretfully I don't have an answer for you but I do have the same exact problem.
>Have you been able to work around it yet? If you have any info, let me know and
>I will do the same for you!
>Thank you
>ron
>
>Sean Osguthorpe wrote:
>
>> To date I have tried the installation from numerous locations, including
>> copying the files to CD and trying from there. Unfortunately all with
>> the same result, I am surprised that there are not more threads relating
>> to this issue, if it is one!
>>
>> In article <906mas$97j$1_at_plutonium.btinternet.com>, Tom McInally
>> <tom.mcinally_at_btinternet.com> writes
>> >I have Personal Oracle 8i on CD from the technology network. Same problem
>> >'though. I've tried all routes from the CD. If you get a workaround for this
>> >I would appreciate some info.
>> >"Sean Osguthorpe" <sean_at_waterh.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>> >news:z6F9DCA2IaJ6Ew9W_at_waterh.demon.co.uk...
>> >> Please excuse my ignorance, I have recently downloaded Personal Oracle8i
>> >> Release 2 Version 8.1.6 for Windows 98 and am experiencing difficulties
>> >> with installing it.
>> >>
>> >> When I run the setup program, after un-zipping the file, I get to the
>> >> dialog box within the universal installer that prompts me to select the
>> >> source and destination directories. The source is obviously pointing
>> >> toward the location on my machine where products.jar resides, and the
>> >> destination is a location I have specified as home. However, I get the
>> >> following message:
>> >>
>> >> 'There was a problem in accessing the staging area. Please make sure the
>> >> specified values for 'source' and 'destination' are valid'.
>> >>
>> >> I am running windows ME, but I can not see that as a problem.
>> >>
>> >> If I correctly point the source to products.jar, and have likewise
>> >> created a directory as oracle home, and pointed the destination there,
>> >> then I can not understand the error message.
>> >>
>> >> Any guidance would be appreciated.
>> >>
>> >> Regards
>> >> --
>> >> Sean Osguthorpe
>> >
>> >
>>
>> --
>> Sean Osguthorpe
>
 

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Sean Osguthorpe