Does 8.1.6 Personal Edition on Win 98 support interMedia ?

From: Alex Barwick <abarwick_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 08:39:02 -1000
Message-ID: <tk9c14bnt5gt37@corp.supernews.com>

Hi,

I am running 8i Personal Edition [8.1.6] on Win 98.

For a bc4j tutorial in JDev I need to create the following table:

create table inventory_item(

  id             number,
  ...            ....
  image          ORDSYS.ORDIMAGE,
  ....           .....

)

... I get the following error for ORDSYS.ORDIMAGE

ORA-00902: invalid datatype

On inspection it appears that none of the interMedia was installed and therefore creates the above error.

2) None of the suggested 'installs' [universal installer or manual] work as the core interMedia is not to be found in my webdownload installation folder.[also I do not have an 'ord' folder with the suggested installation files in my "Oracle_HOME" directory]

3) The documentation at

http://www.oradoc.com/ora816/server.816/a76962/ch4.htm

states

"Oracle8i Personal Edition is available on Windows NT and Windows98 and
includes, at no extra cost, all features and options that are available with Oracle8i Enterprise Edition, such as Oracle .. > interMedia <.. and Oracle Partitioning. Oracle8i Personal Edition on Windows98 includes the database server and ...MOST ..?.. related products and features, depending on whether the required functionality is supported on the Windows98 platform."

...
the following link for a "detailed" listing is BROKEN:

"For more details on Oracle8i feature and option availability and
descriptions, see the "Oracle8i: A Family of Database Products" document at www.oracle.com/database/availability."

Is there a way for me to install/download the necessary interMedia for the Personal Edition on Windows 98 or will I have to wait until I install Windows 2000/XP some time in the future?

My fallback is to change the image datatype to BLOB; that works but would involve me changing various other xml and java files in the OnlineOrders tutorial. Also I was looking forward to investigating interMedia.

Could somebody please give me a definite "yes|no" on interMedia|Personal Edition|Win 98 ?

Sincerely,

Alexander

Alexander R Barwick
abarwick_at_hotmail.com Received on Thu Jul 05 2001 - 13:39:02 CDT