Re: Installation Problems

sounds like you need to do the brutal erase of all oracle products from a windoze machine. THere is a document on metalstink about how to remove oracle entirely from a windoze machine, if you dont have metalstink access let me know, i'll email it to you direct.

joe

JoJo Al-Zawawi wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I just tried to install Oracle 9i personal edition for Win98 on my Win98 PC.
>
> After quite a bit of installation, it got to a part where it was creating
> some database or something, and I got an error: "The program encountered an
> invalid page exception. Fault location: 0028:0022 Interrupts in service:
> None" And it advised me to reboot, which I did.
>
> Now I cannot get the installation program to re-start, no matter what I do,
> from the CD-ROM, from the computer, from running various programs on the
> CD-ROM, what have you. I can't un-install it because (a) it doesn't show up
> on Windows' uninstall list and (b) the Oracle installer won't run.
>
> It starts to run (a brief flash of the "installer" graphic), then the CD-ROM
> quits and nothing happens.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> JoJo
>

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