I don't know where, but I can tell you how to switch homes in the 32-bit
environments. Run the installer off the CD and pick the home you want. All
icons and everything get restored for that home.
Chuckster <cmabrey_at_flash.net> wrote in message
news:374A274A.6E34C8CD_at_flash.net...
> Went to install an Oracle Application on a client.
>
> Oracle was on the D:\ORANT (Oracle 8)
>
> There was already 2 Oracle Applications on the PC.
>
> I installed the Application with an Install Shield Kit that created a
> D:\ORA805 (Oracle 8)
> It created an ORACLE_HOME_805
>
> Ran new App and it worked.
>
> Ran the old Apps and got something about "no protocol adapter."
> Ran Oracle HOME selector and it said there was only one home.
> Ran easy config and it defaulted to C:\ORANT !!! I changed it to
> D:\ORANT and confirmed TNSNAMES.ORA
> Ran the old Apps and got something about "no protocol adapter."
> Ran SQL plus and got something about "no protocol adapter."
>
> I installed Oracle 8 from an Oracle CD onto C:\ORANT and gave it a
> different HOME.
> Ran old Apps and they worked!!!! I had copied the TNSNAMES.ORA I had
> used earlier so it wasn't that or missing parentheses, protocol = TCP
> missing ar anything like that.
>
> I think the old C:\ORANT was from an old install long since removed.
>
> MY QUESTION - Where in the world was the C:\ being remembered?
> It wasn't in HOME. It wasn't in the registery. It wasn't in
> TNSNAMES.ORA or SEQUEL.ORA.
> Where???
>
> --
> Chuck Mabrey
> Webmaster and Historian
> North Texas HOG
> http://www.flash.net/~cmabrey
>
>
Received on Thu May 27 1999 - 23:52:22 CDT
