Re: Oracle 8i Enterprise Edition for NT installation problem

Hi Wessel,

This is from the 'release notes' file:

Installation Issues

   1.Verify System Requirements--ensure that the system requirements in the installation documentation have been met.

     Note: You can complete a Minimal Oracle8i Enterprise Edition installation on a 64MB machine, but you cannot run

     Oracle Universal Installer and the database assistants during the same installation session. To run the assistants on a

     machine with less than 96MB of RAM, complete a Minimal installation, then when asked if you want to create a

     database, answer No. Similarly, if asked if you want to migrate an existing database, choose No. After installation is

     completed and Oracle Universal Installer exits, run the assistant(s). Oracle Options (interMedia, Spatial, etc.) are not

     installed during a Minimal installation. If you want to install any of the options, do so after completing a Minimal

     installation.

   2.Before installing an Oracle8i server ensure that any existing Net8 or SQL*Net listeners on the same computer are

     stopped. An existing listener may prevent the Net8 8.1 listener from starting during the Oracle8i install due to listener

     endpoint conflicts with an existing listener. For more information on installing and using Net8, see Net8 later in this

     release note.

   3.You must have Administrative privileges to install. Before beginning installation, ensure that you are logged on as a user

     with Administrative privileges.

Initial Installation

            Attention:

            If you have an existing 8.0.x, 7.x, or earlier Oracle home and you want to install release

            8.1.5 on the same computer, use a different Oracle home location than the previous

            install(s). If you attempt to install into the same Oracle home, Oracle Universal Installer will

            prevent you from installing.

An out-of-memory problem has been reported by users on minimal systems (64MB; 128MB of RAM is recommended) when
running the Oracle Database Migration Assistant and Oracle Database Configuration Assistant. If you are using a minimal system, Oracle Corporation recommends that you increase virtual memory to 200 MB (modify it in System Properties). Ensure that your system has enough disk space necessary before proceeding with an installation by reading "System Requirements" in your installation guide.

Aaaaaaadios,

Javier Rojas

wessie wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've noticed some postings in this newsgroup about installation problems on
> NT, but alas, these postings are expired, so I can't read them anymore.
> So maybe I'm asking something here that has just been discussed...
>
> I've just recieved Oracle 8i Enterprise Edition from the OTN.
> When I try to do a typical install into my default_home, I get (more or
> less) the next error-messages :
> Can not install, because :
> 1) you don't have administrator rights -> not true
> 2) insufficient disk-space -> not true
> 3) you tried to install into an oracle home which was created with an older,
> incompatible version of Oracle Installer -> maybe true ?
>
> I'm trying to upgrade from Oracle 8.0.5, which was installed with Oracle
> Installer. Oracle 8i comes with Oracle Universal Installer. Are those two
> incompatible ? I find this hard to believe.
> Has anybody encountered (and solved) this problem yet ?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Wessel van Alphen
Received on Wed May 12 1999 - 04:32:53 CDT