Whilst trying to get scripted installs to work, I had dozens of Oracle homes for different
versions on a single PC - no problems except if memory serves some environment vars (PATH being
the obvious one) "looked" OK, but had reached some limit (256 chars?) and so some things went
astray
hth
connor
- Wolfgang Breitling <breitliw_at_centrexcc.com> wrote: > Every new Oracle install prepends its
oracle_home\bin directory and
> nowadays it java_home\bin to the path so that would be a different order
> than usual.
> I always remove them and have an oraenv.cmd to "augment" the path and set
> oracle_home and sid to the correct values when I need them, much like the
> oraenv on unix.
>
> Other than that, I am no aware of any problems, although I have only ever
> installed them in the order Oracle8 - Oracle9.
>
> At 07:59 AM 2/23/2004, you wrote:
> >I'm about to reinstall 8.1.7 on this work laptop which already has a
> >9.2.0.4 instance on it. Has anyone installed these two products in this
> >order? If so are there any gotchas that I should be aware of. I may also
> >put 9.0.1 back on as well, but that will be a different story.
> >
> >Niall
> >
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