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See Metalink Notes 124353.1 and 208256.1
Regards,
Chris
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Paul Vincent
Sent: Friday, 23 April 2004 11:06 a.m.
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Registry remnants after uninstalling 9.2 on W2K server
OK, there's no excuse for such carelessness: The development team wanted
to revert a W2K server, which had Oracle 9.2 installed (but no databases
yet) to Oracle 8.0.6, in order to test a migration path. So I stopped
the Oracle services, ran the Oracle Installer and uninstalled 9.2,
removed the remnant directories, then rebooted the server. I then got
the install CD for Oracle 8.0.6 and installed it into its own Oracle
Home.
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Fine - no problems.
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Except that when the developers went to install their 3rd-party
application package, it threw up error messages which clearly showed it
was looking for files in the old Oracle 9.2 Home directories - which of
course no longer existed.
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Clearly I screwed up by not realising (I realise now!) that there must
have been lingering Registry entries relating to Oracle 9.2, which I
should have identified and deleted before proceeding with my
installation of Oracle 8.0.6.
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So my question is: is it a "safe" course of action to simply remove
those lingering 9.2 registry entries? If so, which entries should I
remove in order for the server to only regard itself as possessing a
single, 8.0.6, Oracle Home? (I've not been through this particular
process before, though I'm OK with making Registry edits in general). Or
is this too risky a procedure, and would I be better off uninstalling
8.0.6, removing ALL Oracle registry entries (in which case, could
someone please give me a checklist of relevant entries?), and then
re-installing 8.0.6. As I mentioned, no database has been created yet,
simply Oracle software installed.
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Definitely one of THOSE days...
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Regards,
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Paul Vincent
Database Administrator
University of Central England
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