Re: Installing NT for Oracle8i

    If you go to buy your machine at a CompUSA or equivalent you'll hear salesmen who don't know much or anything about NT. But all the major manufacturers have web sites. There you can simply order you machine with NT instead of Win98. Last time I bought a server I wanted a Dell but they charged about $700 extra for NT server. Gateway charged just over $100 extra as I recall, making the Gateway a lot cheaper.

    And if you do want to install it yourself it's not a big deal.

Van

TDanis1522 <tdanis1522_at_aol.com> wrote in message news:20000430011701.21644.00000498_at_ng-fe1.aol.com...
>
> Simply put, how difficult would it be for an experienced UNIX sys admin/
> Oracle DBA to self-install NT (with no prior experience in installation)
> for the purpose of having their own standalone system at home? I went
> cruising for a nice server (128MB RAM, net card, 10.0Gb disk is all
> I need), but all the systems had Win98 pre-installed and the salespeople
> were very discouraging with their talk about drivers and OS
 incompatibilities.
> I've done lots of Oracle product installs on NT machines, but it's
 loading
> the OS itself that has me peturbed. I'm between jobs, so I can't get
> the NT admins at work to help and I don't want to spend a lifetime
> trouble-shooting. Do I really have to worry about drivers, and/or is
> there some specific brand that would facilitate this. This machine
> would be strictly for OAS,JDeveloper and 8.1.5, no e-mail, games,
> fax machines, nuttin' else. I'd appreciate pointers or a game plan
> very much!
>
> Tony Danis
Received on Sun Apr 30 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT