Re: FOOLISH to install Oracle Forms 4.5 on Win2k Professional?

From: Daniel A. Morgan <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 23:03:45 -0700
Message-ID: <3B303CC1.9F77646@exesolutions.com>

U-4EA wrote:

> I have an older version of Oracle Developer 2000, and I am trying to
> install Oracle Forms 4.5 on IBM thinkpad laptops running Win2000
> Professional. When the progress bar starts for copying files, it terminates
> abnormally at about 10%, and says there was some sort of memory address
> error. I tried it on several machines, and even tried it with a safe mode
> boot so other crap wouldn't run in the background and interfere with it, but
> the installation still konks out when file copying starts. Was it totally
> foolish of me to try to install this on Win2k Pro, because Oracle 7 server
> seems to work ok.
>
> Desperate one...

Not totally foolish but I'm not surprised. Why not get Forms 6i? Why build with a horribly buggy out of date unsupported piece of software that will make your resume look like your install attempt?

Daniel A. Morgan Received on Wed Jun 20 2001 - 01:03:45 CDT