Re: Personal Oracle on Win "Me"- YES you can.

AFAIK there are no versions yet of Personal Oracle *certified* for WinME, as Microsux spits out new releases of their sw every 2 years, and those versions are almost never truly downwards compatible. You are addressing the wrong party.

Secondly, what you describe below I consider as 'hacking my way in' and you definitely don't know or can know what the consequences are. For anyone who want to lead an adventurous live, follow the procedure outlined below, for anyone who wants to rely on stable sw, just wait for the first certified version of Personal Oracle for WinMe, and ignore this dangerous advice.

Regards,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 04:46:48 GMT, "Devin Santo" <Drsanto_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

>Yes, you can install Personal Oracle on Windows Millennium edition... (see
>below)
>
>First, though, I will answer the rather "blunt" comment I received below.
>
>1. I wouldn't consider my time wasted...I learned a lot.
>
>2. I would think that a product like "personal" Oracle would take into
>account that most home-users
>are running a "home" OS, of which, "Me" is one. This being the case, I think
>it's weak for Oracle to put out a product that does not serve these users
>from the get-go...
>
>Thanks to each of you who actually offered help.
>
>Okay, here's the work around that allows the install...
>It's actually pretty simple:
>I will post it here and elsewhere for other Me users...
>
>Open your Win.ini, scroll down some until you see [Compatibility95] Under
>that heading, type or paste this string...
>JREW=0x00080000 close it, save changes and try starting the installation
>again. This worked for myself and someone else who was also having
>difficulties installing the software. I don't know the how or why, just that
>I now have the software installed....
>
>"Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message
>news:v1eidto6qgge6o4ucgkjl1q0en8fnbheg1_at_4ax.com...
>> 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 Thu Apr 19 2001 - 10:08:35 CDT