Re: Oracle 8i on Win XP

"Peter Geldhof" <peter.geldhof_at_anteris.be> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>OS: Win XP Professional
>
>For testing purposes I downloaded Oracle 8i (8.1.7) enterprise edition.
>When I try to startup the Oracle Universal Installer it immediately dies ...
>my processor goes to 100% and then immediately stops. I do this on a brand
>new (may 2003) Compaq Evo N1020 (512MB, 1.8Ghz proc etc ...)
>
>The strange thing is that I tried this installation already several times on
>other laptops without any problems. Does anyone know what might be wrong ?
>(I've installed the JVM from Sun) Do I need to set manually some
>environment variables ?
>
>Thanks,
>Peter
>

Perhaps a Pentium 4 processor?

If so, do a google search in the comp.databases.oracle.* groups for Pentium 4 or Pentium IV and read up on the work arounds..Better yet, use the Oracle 9.2 release..It works fine with P4s...

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