Re: Personal 8i on NT

I think your problem is the Win 2000 Registry. Take a look at it. Did you just manually delete the Oracle directories or use the Oracle installer to "uninstall" the product?

I'm a Unix man myself and have nothing but spite for for the Windows Registry.

daryl_at_McGregor.bc.ca wrote in message <8ui4tp$ve6$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>...
>Hello,
>
>I'm trying to reinstall Personal 8i on a Windows 2000 Professional box.
>I have removed all the old products, deleted the old oracle_home and
>anything else I can think of. However, when I go to reinstall oracle,
>the installer "remembers" the old SID and oracle_home directory.
>Somewhere there is a file (or many), maybe some obscure thing in the
>system32 directory that has a record of the old oracle_home directory
>name and SID. I'd like to ring its bloody NT neck (I'm a unix man).
>Anybody think they might know where such a record file would live on a
>NT box? I'd like to purge it so I can reinstall Oracle and use the old
>naming scheme.
>
>Daryl
>
>
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Received on Sun Nov 12 2000 - 10:40:42 CST