From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Fri Apr 23 01:56:01 2004 Return-Path: Received: from air189.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i3N6tkr10950 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 01:55:56 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air189.startdedicated.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i3N6ta610934 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 01:55:46 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 634C372D041; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 01:47:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 04990-23; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 01:47:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 755C072D030; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 01:47:52 -0500 (EST) Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list oracle-l); Fri, 23 Apr 2004 01:46:39 -0500 (EST) X-Original-To: oracle-l@freelists.org Delivered-To: oracle-l@freelists.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 4ACFE72CDF8 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 01:46:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 01995-79 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 01:46:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from falcon.uce.ac.uk (falcon.uce.ac.uk [193.60.133.100]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id DF48F72CDEA for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 01:46:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from exchangeb.staff.uce.ac.uk ([10.255.50.153]) by falcon.uce.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1BGudp-0002jM-Iw for oracle-l@freelists.org; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 07:58:29 +0100 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6487.1 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: RE: Registry remnants after uninstalling 9.2 on W2K server Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 07:58:29 +0100 Message-ID: <14C5F9616FF43F479F67E41A1DF4D94A02048E04@exchangeb.staff.uce.ac.uk> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Registry remnants after uninstalling 9.2 on W2K server Thread-Index: AcQoms3BQxsp91O4RGaqHxUwtNOiJgAIc3laAACe7KAAEE51MA== From: "Paul Vincent" To: UCE-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at freelists.org X-archive-position: 3628 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: Paul.Vincent@uce.ac.uk Precedence: normal Reply-To: oracle-l@freelists.org X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at freelists.org Excellent tech notes - just what I needed! Thank you. Paul -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org]On Behalf Of Borrill, Christopher Sent: 23 April 2004 00:12 To: oracle-l@freelists.org Subject: RE: Registry remnants after uninstalling 9.2 on W2K server See Metalink Notes 124353.1 and 208256.1 Regards, Chris -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Paul Vincent Sent: Friday, 23 April 2004 11:06 a.m. To: oracle-l@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. =3D20 Fine - no problems. =3D20 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. =3D20 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. =3D20 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. =3D20 Definitely one of THOSE days... =3D20 Regards, =3D20 Paul Vincent Database Administrator University of Central England -- Binary/unsupported file stripped by Ecartis -- -- Type: application/ms-tnef -- File: winmail.dat ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@freelists.org put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at http://www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at http://www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@freelists.org put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at http://www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at http://www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@freelists.org put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at http://www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at http://www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------