Re: Problems Installing Oracle 9i on WinXP

On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 07:58:50 -0400, "Aliraja" <ali.raza_at_hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

>Hello guys,
>
>I would really going to appreciate if any one could help me with the same
>problem as discussed before.I am trying to install oracle 9i release 2
>downloaded from racle website on WinXP with SP2. But unfortunately i get
>the error message saying "Problem in accessing the staging area.Please
>chekc siurce and destination fields". I have tried everything but nothing
>happening for me. Could anyone help me out with this?.
>Thanks in advance.

IIRC there are two possible causes
1 Your Oracle_home is using a 'long' directory name, ie more than 8 characters and/or special characters
2 You already have the OUI on your system, and you are using the OUI from the zip file.

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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA