Re: Personal Oracle8i installation

Sean,
Regretfully I don't have an answer for you but I do have the same exact problem. Have you been able to work around it yet? If you have any info, let me know and I will do the same for you!
Thank you
ron

Sean Osguthorpe wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
>
> --
> Sean Osguthorpe
Received on Fri Feb 23 2001 - 20:39:23 CST