Re: Oracle 8i Installer *unbelievably* slow

I went to the "Managing Oracle 8 on Solaris: class a few weeks ago and we installed Oracle 8i on our Sun Ultra Sparc 5 (or were then 10's, whatever). Mine was the only one that worked the first time through (out of 14 people) and it took 2+ hours. I'm guessing it is the new Java installer.

-sd

Brad Aisa wrote in message <379B1E85.8A282925_at_istar.ca>...
>I have just finished doing some installs of Oracle 8i client for
>Windows. On my (not too old) Dell Optiplex PC running Win95 with 32M of
>RAM, it took over two hours to complete the install of Oracle 8i client
>(including documentation). Running it on Compaq Windows NT workstations
>with 32M of RAM was almost impossible -- we had to copy the CD to a
>network share, and even then, each PC took over an hour just to install
>the basic client. Rerunning the install to add the ODBC client took over
>1/2 hour again. This is the worst dog I think I've ever encountered! (I
>suspect the problem was that there was not enough memory -- but why in
>heaven's name should it take more than 32M to **install** some software
>-- sheesh!)
>
>I can't imagine what a nightmare it must be to install the client on
>many PC's on a network...
>
>Has this not been raised as an issue with Oracle? Are they doing
>anything about it?
>
>I noted that Microsoft dramatically reduced the installation times for
>both the client and server in SQL Server 7.0...
>
>--
>Brad Aisa
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>"Laissez faire."
Received on Mon Jul 26 1999 - 10:35:21 CDT