This sounds like a nightmare. I have installed 8i on 4 NT4 machines now
without a hitch. Certainly manual editing of the registry was never
required. If the install is failing to copy all necessary files is it
perhaps the installation media that is corrupt. The other thing to note is
that the installer requires a newish jvm, the one that comes with Internet
Explorer 4 is fine
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
"David Rawle" <david.rawle_at_channel-a.com> wrote in message
news:38F20FDA.3EDD659_at_channel-a.com...
> Yup,
>
> It installs fine (eventually after fiddling around with the registry and
> copying files over half way through installation) but it is very
> unstable.
>
> I want/have to use 8i/webdb and intermedia for a client's web site and I
> can't get it going.
>
> We have tried on 3 or 4 differnet machines - the latest in a Dell
> poweredge with 18G drive, 2G ram, twin 550 Pentium 3's.
>
> Sybase works like a dream on it. (I tried Sybase trial install after 4
> months fiddling with Oracle).
>
> Why do I have to manually go into the registry?
> Why do I have to copy tnsnames.ora half way through the install?
> Why do I have to change the path variable after product installs?
> Why is Oracle such a pig?
>
> I just worked out that this Oracle install has cost my company >$200,000
> in addition to the licenses and support purchased. I find Oracle support
> unbelievably bad - they want $1800/day to come and install a product that
> should install out of the box.
>
> I am amazed, esp. with so much RDBMS experience, that Oracle will not
> install at all on NT.
>
> - David
>
> Finn Ellebaek Nielsen wrote:
>
> > Perhaps we can help you if you tell us what's going wrong?
> >
> > Finn
> >
> > David Rawle <david.rawle_at_channel-a.com> wrote in message
> > news:38F1F2DC.E11CB325_at_channel-a.com...
> > > I have been trying since September to get this pile to work.
> > >
> > > Has anyone ever got it working. Please help me if you have
> > >
> > > I have nearly 15 years RDBMS experience and I cannot get Oracle
> > > working...
> > >
> > > What gives?
> > >
> > > - David
> > > --
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> > > channel a, soho, london, uk | phone: +44 (0) 20 7287 6544
> > > http://www.channel-a.com | fax: +44 (0) 20 7287 6554
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> > >
> > >
> > >
>
> --
> david rawle, technical director | e-mail: david.rawle_at_channel-a.com
> channel a, soho, london, uk | phone: +44 (0) 20 7287 6544
> http://www.channel-a.com | fax: +44 (0) 20 7287 6554
> (signature and public encryption key attached)
>
>
Received on Tue Apr 11 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT
