Re: Quirky Oracle installation problem

You might want to check your registry. Oracle can put a lot of paths there and some could be pointing to your Z drive.

Van

<sonar11_at_my-deja.com> wrote in message news:85j36q$r30$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> Hello Oracle gurus:
>
> I recently did a complete reformat of my hard drive, so now I have to
> reinstall Oracle Personal Edition 8.
> However, I ran into a problem at the very beginning of the installation
> process.
> After I inserted the CD-ROM, I am asked to type in the home location,
> where the Oracle files are supposed to be
> installed. I typed in C:\ However, Oracle then changed this path to
> Z:\ (my zip drive)and then copied an orawin95
> directory to the Zip.
> So I then went back to the text box where the home directory is
> supposed to be entered, in order to change it back to C:, but I was
> surprised to see that this text box was
> disabled (i.e., grayed out), which prevented me from entering the
> correct path.
> The installation program also entered in my autoexec.bat a path command
> containing the path to Z: I then
> removed this line from autoexec.bat, rebooted and tried the
> installation program again. However, doing this did
> not fix the text box problem -- it was still grayed out.
> So now I do not know how to go about installing this software and I
> need it for an upcoming class.
> My PC is a Pentium 200 MHZ, with 160MB of RAM and a 4GB hard drive,
> using Windows 95.
> Can anyone advise me on this matter? It would be greatly appreciated.
> Thank You.
>
> Patrick
>
>
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Received on Wed Jan 12 2000 - 20:07:52 CST