Re: Personal 8i on NT

Hi

As well as the advice to purge the registry Oracle 8i keeps a record of its install actions in c:\program files\oracle. I.E. NOT in the oracle home you install to. I would assume that Personal 8i operates in the same way.

HTH "Mark Detwiler" <mark_at_msdetwiler.com> wrote in message news:8umhpp$ij9$1_at_la-mail4.digilink.net...
> I think your problem is the Win 2000 Registry. Take a look
> at it. Did you just manually delete the Oracle directories
> or use the Oracle installer to "uninstall" the product?
>
> I'm a Unix man myself and have nothing but spite for
> for the Windows Registry.
>
> daryl_at_McGregor.bc.ca wrote in message <8ui4tp$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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> >Before you buy.
>
>
Received on Thu Nov 16 2000 - 06:08:45 CST