Re: Oracle "Newbie" wanting to install the personal on Win Me

On Sat, 14 Apr 2001 23:30:54 GMT, "Devin Santo" <Drsanto_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

>8i release 8.1.5 for Win '98 and Developer 6.0.
>
>My issue is that I cannot install the personal edition of 8i.
>Every time I try, it kicks me back to the splash screen.
>
>Although I have zero problems installing Developer, I noticed that there was
>a documented issue referencing the very problem I was having, but there
>wasn't any reference to Windows Millenium.
>
>The fix was to set the path (in DOS) to c:\winnt\system32; then run the
>setup.exe from there. Since I'm on Win Me, I didn't have a winnt folder but
>I found the system32. I then modified the DOS command to:
>c:\set path=c:\windows\system32;c:\D:\setup.exe...
>Nothing... So then I figured "maybe the drivers were in the system32 in 98".
>So, I tried:
>...\system32\drivers;c:\D:\setup.exe...again nothing.
>
>I am currently downloading 8i, 8.1.6 to see if there's any difference though
>I doubt there is.
>
>Does anyone know exactly what the work-around might be for Windows Me, or
>what exactly it was in system32 that the setup.exe was looking for, or if I
>can even run it on Me?
>
>I've already spent 8 hours on this (lots that I did, but did not mention),
>and all I'm trying to do is install it so that I can do my homework...So
>far, I'm not impressed... :)
>TIA
>DS
>
>

I you would only have first assured your version actually runs on WinMe, you wouldn't have wasted 8 hours.

Regards,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA Received on Sun Apr 15 2001 - 00:58:11 CDT