Whenever i remove oracle from my machine i always go into
the registry and delete the ORACLE keys.
I have found that there can be conflicts when you install and uninsstall
different products, like designer and developer etc etc.
tom
In article <20000119083023.02752.00000160_at_ng-fy1.aol.com>, noodles_at_aol.com
says...
>
>I downloaded Personal Oracle 8i (NT) through technet.oracle.com. I'm familiar
>with server-based instances but this is getting frustrating.
>
>I did have some client versions of Oracle 8.05 on the machine so I created a
>new DEFAULT_HOME for Personal Oracle 8i. Could there still be some conflicts
?
>
>Anyways, I did the install but during the sample database creation, an
>ORA1-12571 TNS packet writer error occurred. I aborted and said to heck with
>the sample database; as long as I've got my server objects I'm good to go.
>Then I created a database, added a listener for my SID and started the
>listener. I tried launching the database through the admin utility but that
>executable wouldn't run. (?).
>
>I deleted all and completely re-installed from scratch. ( Same packet writer
>error though ). I was looking for SVRMGR or something to start the instance
>and I can't find it. I tried looking for SMON, PMON, etc... but only an
>ORACLE.EXE process is running.
>
>Launching SQL*Plus and trying to connect gives me another OS-SpecificSQL*Net
>error ORA-12570.
>
>Do I :
>
>1 Have a bad install ?
>2 have a bad install of SQL*Net ?
>
>I've dug through all of the docs and can't seem to find ny help. There is
>something about an NT SQL*Net patch but I thought that was only for people
>doing Oracle 7 upgrades.
>
>Confused in PA,
>Cliff Buetikofer
>(noodles_at_aol.com)
Received on Wed Jan 19 2000 - 09:48:46 CST
