RE: Installing 73 and 816 on one NT server?

Paul,

        Do you mean that support for 8.1.6 ends in October? KK

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Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 6:42 AM
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Denham Eva wrote:
>
> Hi Gurus,
>
> I have annihilated our test system trying to achieve this. Does anyone
have
> any links to sites or Metalink which documents this.
> What I have done is try to load two versions of Oracle 7.3.4 and 8.1.6
onto
> an NT system.
> I did the obvious by placing the versions in their own Oracle Base
> directories and different Oracle Names.
> I have a suspicion that the registry is where the two cannot share their
> settings?!
>
> Anyway any guidance will be appreciated.
> Many Thanks
> Denham
> --

I'd use the same %ORACLE_BASE% directory, e.g. D:\Oracle - e.g.:

D:\Oracle

        \Admin
        \Ora73
        \Ora81

Error correction support ends in October for 8.1.6 - maybe just install 8.1.7 and patch instead?

Paul

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