Re: instalation problems8/8i ex Que

earlier versions or personal oracle were not certified to run on win98, only win95. From the nature of your problem I would say that this is probably the issue here. Personal Oracle can be downloaded from technet.oracle.com

regards

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
"alan" <alan.mclean_at_bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> Hi.

>

>     I am trying to get Oracle 8i running, its a disk from one of the Que.

> books.

>

> The system :-

>

>         Win98 Second Ed. 4.10.2222A

>         128 meg ram

>         Athlon 700

>

> So far it's complained it can't find Java so  I obtained and installed the

> latest JRE but it dose not seem to recognise it but IE5 is ok with it.

> Aborted due to "system restrictions" giving no further info. I have placed

> no restrictions on the system.

> Produced the following fault

>

>                                              START caused an invalid page

> fault in

> module KRNL386.EXE at 0002:00007bf8.

> Registers:

> EAX=0000016f CS=015f EIP=00007bf8 EFLGS=00000206

> EBX=00008b42 SS=341f ESP=00008b24 EBP=00008b38

> ECX=00000014 DS=017f ESI=004ee0a8 FS=0000

> EDX=00000000 ES=017f EDI=80347d40 GS=0000

> Bytes at CS:EIP:

> f3 67 a4 66 5b 66 59 66 5f 66 5e 07 1f 5d ca 0c

> Stack dump:

> 00008b42 00000000 00002bde 000011d6 016f348f 7e218b70 0014015f e0a80000

> 7d40004e 341f8034 11de11d6 00000000 17380040 348f004d e0a88b6a 7d40004e

>

> Oh yes it's also declared periodically that "start.exe" is not a valid

 win32


> app.

>

> I would write it off as a bad disk but it will load onto my old Win95 PC

 but


> that's a 200 P2 with a 1gig drive.

>

> I would very much like to use the newer machine so any suggestions to

>

>     alan.mclean_at_bigfoot.com

>

>         Thanks Everybody

>

>

>