RE: Installation Problems

Hi Paul,

The CD installation program is not working (it just won't run) -- that's 90% of my problem. I'm going to have to do a manual de-install. I am completely unfamiliar with Oracle (I'm about to take a class and start learning it), so I haven't any idea where it places files, i.e., whether it places files in folders other than obviously-named Oracle files. Do you know?

Thanks,
JoJo

-----Original Message-----

Paul R.
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 10:00 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

The proper way to back out almost all Oracle installations on a PC is as follows:

1. De-install the Oracle application using the CD that you used to do the installation
2. Delete the folder under which you installed the Oracle application
3. Delete all Oracle folders and files referencing that Oracle application from the registry under hkey_local_machine\software
4. Delete all Oracle folders and files referencing that Oracle application from the registry under hkey_local_machine\system, any/all controlset, including currentcontrolset
5. Reboot your PC - this should clear the other areas of the registry, i.e., hkey_local_user, et al
6. Depending on the Oracle application, you may need to delete/modify some of the environmental i.e., system variables, if/where applicable to the operating system; a check never hurts
7. You may not be able to delete the folder in step 2; if so, after the reboot, you should be able to; if not, you more than likely still have something referencing a file in that folder.

Paul
DBA
Elcom, Inc.

-----Original Message-----

Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 12:05 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

I backed up my registry before I installed it. Do you suppose if restored that registry and just deleted any Oracle directories (and then rebooted), that would do it? Does Oracle place files in any Windows directories (dlls, etc.)?

Thanks,
JoJo

-----Original Message-----

Kirti
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 8:25 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Darn Windoze !!
Looks like you need to manually get rid of the entire Oracle directory structure, and remove the "registry" entries (after saving current registry:), and then rebooting to start afresh. Good Luck,

• Kirti

-----Original Message-----

Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 8:05 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Hi all,

I just tried to install Oracle 9i personal edition for Win98 on my Win98 PC.

After quite a bit of installation, it got to a part where it was creating some database or something, and I got an error: "The program encountered an invalid page exception. Fault location: 0028:0022 Interrupts in service: None" And it advised me to reboot, which I did.

Now I cannot get the installation program to re-start, no matter what I do, from the CD-ROM, from the computer, from running various programs on the CD-ROM, what have you. I can't un-install it because (a) it doesn't show up on Windows' uninstall list and (b) the Oracle installer won't run.

It starts to run (a brief flash of the "installer" graphic), then the CD-ROM quits and nothing happens.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
JoJo

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