Re: Personal Oracle8i installation

To date I have tried the installation from numerous locations, including copying the files to CD and trying from there. Unfortunately all with the same result, I am surprised that there are not more threads relating to this issue, if it is one!

In article <906mas$97j$1_at_plutonium.btinternet.com>, Tom McInally <tom.mcinally_at_btinternet.com> writes
>I have Personal Oracle 8i on CD from the technology network. Same problem
>'though. I've tried all routes from the CD. If you get a workaround for this
>I would appreciate some info.
>"Sean Osguthorpe" <sean_at_waterh.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:z6F9DCA2IaJ6Ew9W_at_waterh.demon.co.uk...
>> Please excuse my ignorance, I have recently downloaded Personal Oracle8i
>> Release 2 Version 8.1.6 for Windows 98 and am experiencing difficulties
>> with installing it.
>>
>> When I run the setup program, after un-zipping the file, I get to the
>> dialog box within the universal installer that prompts me to select the
>> source and destination directories. The source is obviously pointing
>> toward the location on my machine where products.jar resides, and the
>> destination is a location I have specified as home. However, I get the
>> following message:
>>
>> 'There was a problem in accessing the staging area. Please make sure the
>> specified values for 'source' and 'destination' are valid'.
>>
>> I am running windows ME, but I can not see that as a problem.
>>
>> If I correctly point the source to products.jar, and have likewise
>> created a directory as oracle home, and pointed the destination there,
>> then I can not understand the error message.
>>
>> Any guidance would be appreciated.
>>
>> Regards
>> --
>> Sean Osguthorpe
>
>
 

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Sean Osguthorpe