Quirky Oracle 8 install problem

Hello Oracle gurus:

I recently did a complete reformat of my hard drive, so now I have to reinstall Oracle Personal Edition 8. However, I ran into a problem at the very beginning of the installation process. After I inserted the CD-ROM, I am asked to type in the home location, where the Oracle files are supposed to be installed. I typed in C:\ However, Oracle then changed this path to Z:\ (my zip drive)and then copied an orawin95 directory to the Zip. So I then went back to the text box where the home directory is supposed to be entered, in order to change it back to C:, but I was surprised to see that this text box was disabled (i.e., grayed out), which prevented me from entering the correct path. The installation program also entered in my autoexec.bat a path command containing the path to Z: I then removed this line from autoexec.bat, rebooted and tried the installation program again. However, doing this did not fix the text box problem -- it was still grayed out. So now I do not know how to go about installing this software and I need it for an upcoming class.
My PC is a Pentium 200 MHZ, with 160MB of RAM and a 4GB hard drive, using Windows 95.
Can anyone advise me on this matter? It would be greatly appreciated. Thank You.

Patrick

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Before you buy. Received on Wed Jan 12 2000 - 08:37:47 CST