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
Received on Thu Nov 30 2000 - 17:17:48 CST
