Re: Personal Oracle 8 and Windows Me

Even MS says that WindowsME is a 'personal' not a 'corporate' OS. MS would be chagrined to hear that people in business are attempting to use ME instead of W2K.

However, it's true - based on my information , Oracle does not plan on supporting ME at the DB level, and possibly not for any??? Oracle s/w

Robert Mulder wrote:

> Jeff,
>
> Forget it!! About one month ago I downloaded Personal Oracle8i (8.1.6) from
> their web site.
> When trying to install it on my Windows ME computer I had exactly the same
> problem; the Universal Installer complains that it can't locate the archive
> files to install from, although the locations shown in the dialog box are
> correct. Yesterday I made a phone call to Oracle Netherlands for getting
> answers to this problem. They told me that Oracle8(i) isn't certified for
> Windows ME and there are no plans to have it certified either. I guess they
> consider ME as a passed station or just a waist of time (and I agree with
> that).
>
> So, if you want to run Oracle8 you have to go back to Windows 9.x or
> download the version for Windows NB/2000.
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert.
>
> "Jeff Miller" <jeffinsd_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:oQNE6.206072$GV2.44154559_at_typhoon.san.rr.com...
> > Has anyone tried using Personal Oracle 8 on a Windows Me box? I can't get
> > it to install. It gets about 30% done in the Universal installer and then
> > craps out saying either the source or destination path is in error? I
> > thought I may have a bad download so I did it again with the same results.
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> > Jeff
> >
> >
Received on Sun Apr 29 2001 - 23:57:27 CDT