Problem installing Oracle 8.1.7 PE on win2k advanced edition

I am a newbie in so far as Oracle is concerned, and I would appreicate some help on getting started.
I was trying to install Oracle 8.1.7 Personal Edition on a w2k server (advanced edition).

The installation ran fine until it hit the Net8 Configuration Assistant step (in optional component screen). The Universal Installer would simply become stuck in that step. Status column for that step says pending, and I tried to stop the step, without any response from the Installer.

I had a look at Install.log and there is no error message. The last few lines from the log is

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Starting to execute optional autolaunch configuration tools Launched configuration tool Net8 Configuration Assistant Command which is being spawned is C:\Program Files\Oracle\jre\1.1.7\bin/jrew.exe -Duser.dir=c:\orahome80\network\jlib -c lasspath ";C:\Program
Files\Oracle\jre\1.1.7\lib\rt.jar;c:\orahome80\jlib\ewt-3_3_6.jar;c:\orahome 80\network\jlib\NetCA.jar;c:\orahome80\network\jlib\netcam.jar;c:\orahome80\ jlib\opsclust.jar;c:\orahome80\jlib\netcfg.jar;c:\orahome80\jlib\help-3_1_8. jar;c:\orahome80\jlib\ice-4_06_6.jar;c:\orahome80\jlib\share-1_0_8.jar;c:\or ahome80\jlib\swingall-1_1_1.jar;C:\Program Files\Oracle\jre\1.1.7\lib\i18n.jar;c:\orahome80\network\tools" oracle.net.ca.NetCA /orahnam OraHome80 /instype typical /inscomp client,net8,javavm,server,ano /insprtcl nmp,tcp /cfg local /authadp NO_VALUE /nodeinfo NO_VALUE /responseFile c:\orahome80\network\install\netca_typ.rsp

Warning :*** Alert: Do you really want to exit? *** User selected: Yes/OK

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After exiting out of Installer (it does let me do that), I tried to run the net8 configuration assistant myself (seeing that it is meant to be an optional step). I had noticed that there is a OracleOraHome80TNSListener service (but not started) when I started up the Services MMC on the win2k server. After I used reconfiguration screen of Net8 Configuration Assistant, this service would then start up. One interesting thing is that after clicking "finish" on the Net8 Listener configuration screen, the Java front end would hang. The only way to exit out of it is to kill the jrew.exe using task manager.

In my orahome80 directory, I found a listener.ora as well as sqlnet.ora in the network\admin subdirectory. However, there isn't a tnsname.ora (as I have been led to believe). TNSPing as well as hostname command can verify that my server name as well as port 1521 is configured correctly.

Despite having the listener service up and running, each time when I tried to create a database using Database Configuration Assistant (choosing typical and copy from CD options), I would get an error message of "ORA-12560: TNS: protocol adapter error" at about 90% complete.

I have tried reboot/deinstall/reinstall/stop/start services, and other usual tricks. Any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance Received on Mon Aug 11 2003 - 05:07:03 CDT