Re: Installing 8i on XP?

Thanks Daniel!

You are certainly correct - P4, and yes thanks to yourself and others reading this group I have the workaround! Thank you so much.

I hope I can learn enough to contribute here someday :-)

Michael Lewis
Manchester
England

"Daniel Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:3D332459.12D513DB_at_exesolutions.com...
> Michael Lewis wrote:
>
> > I am currently (well trying anyway) to learn Oracle and have 8i eval
> > software included with the Sybex books I am using. I am trying to
install
> > on Windows XP but it obviously doesn't like it as the Setup.exe runs and
> > then terminates a few seconds later. It works OK on a real Windows 2000
PC
> > (my brother's), so I tried it on a Windows 2000 Virtual PC
> > (www.connectix.com) ... but it looks like 8i is smarter than that.
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can get this to work? I
learn
> > things so much better if I can play with the software (and break it a
few
> > times)
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Michael
>
> It may or may not be XP. I have quite a few students that have had no
problem
> installing 8i on XP including the personal edition. But I'd be willing to
bet
> the machine is a Pentium 4.
>
> If so look for the Pentium 4 workaround at technet.oracle.com or in the
> archives of this group at google.com.
>
> Daniel Morgan
>
Received on Tue Jul 16 2002 - 12:33:25 CDT