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Re: Personal 8i on NT

From: Eric Givler <egivler_at_flash.net>
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 20:59:53 GMT
Message-ID: <dxDP5.109$ND5.16158@news.flash.net>

Did you remove all services, remove all instances of ORACLE in the registry, remove all shortcuts, program groups/menu items, and files in the oracle home directory, and any system environment variables?

<daryl_at_McGregor.bc.ca> wrote in message news:8ui4tp$ve6$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to reinstall Personal 8i on a Windows 2000 Professional box.
> I have removed all the old products, deleted the old oracle_home and
> anything else I can think of. However, when I go to reinstall oracle,
> the installer "remembers" the old SID and oracle_home directory.
> Somewhere there is a file (or many), maybe some obscure thing in the
> system32 directory that has a record of the old oracle_home directory
> name and SID. I'd like to ring its bloody NT neck (I'm a unix man).
> Anybody think they might know where such a record file would live on a
> NT box? I'd like to purge it so I can reinstall Oracle and use the old
> naming scheme.
>
> Daryl
>
>
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>
Received on Sun Nov 12 2000 - 14:59:53 CST

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