Re: Problem installing Personal Edition for WIndows 98

I will try loading the Lite version to see if it works any better....

"Ray Brizzi" <fmsorigray_at_earthlink.net> wrote in message news:u8vT6.2817$9m.210938_at_newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
> I am trying to install Personal Edition for Windows 98 under Windows ME.
>
> I unzip the downloaded package (psoracl81698.zip) eto a directory called
> Orainst. I start running Setup.exe.
>
> There seems to be a problem with the directory structure. There are no
> spaces in the source or directory path which was the only warning that I
 saw
> in the installation doc. I have 1.5 GB available on the C drive.
>
> The two paths selected by the system are:
>
> C:\Orainst\STAGE\products.jar for source
> and
>

 C:\ORAINST\STAGE\COMPONENTS\ORACLE.SWD.JRE\1.1.7.24\1\DATAFILES\EXPANDED\JRE
> \WIN32\BIN\..\\Oracle\Ora81 for the destination.
>
> When I continue at this point, I get a popup Error window that says:
>
> There was a problem in accessing the staging area. Please make sure the
> specified values for 'Source' and 'Destination' are valid.
>
> It looks like the destination path may be too long, so I changed the
> destination to a new directory I created called C:\Ora but I still get the
> same error.
>
> Any ideas? Is the default source directory incorrect ?
>
>
>
Received on Wed Jun 06 2001 - 14:14:57 CDT