Re: 8i install problem on XP (Client options there but no database).

"Kevin Wright" <wrightkevin_at_ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:Tok4b.105$hE6.123958_at_newsfep1-win.server.ntli.net...
> Hi Sybrand,
>
> As previously mentioned. I know for a fact that my version of Oracle 8i
will
> run
> succesfully on Windows XP home edition. Unfortunately after a Windows
> rebuild
> the Oracle Install program no longer shows all the options on my machine.
> (Irritatingly
> leaving out the one thing I want - the database itself.)
>
> Kevin Wright.
>
>
> "Sybrand Bakker" <gooiditweg_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message
> news:ggi3lvc9keuma8433mndl6p1aaq1mi9hge_at_4ax.com...
> > On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 09:55:01 +0100, "Kevin Wright"
> > <wrightkevin_at_ntlworld.com> wrote:
> >
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >I am experiencing a problem trying to install Oracle 8i Personal
Edition
> on
> > >my laptop. The operating system is XP home edition. I have had no
> problems
> > >previously installing Oracle on this machine with the same operating
> system
> > >(from the same cd as I am using now).
> > >
> > >Typically I launch the Oracle setup with the compatibility set to
Windows
> Me
> > >(or 95/98).
> > >The installer starts ok but only gives me options for installing Client
> > >software - no options
> > >for installing the database itself. The software on this cd has worked
> > >perfectly in the past but now doesnt include the database only the
> client
> > >stuff.
> > >
> > >Has anybody else met this problem?
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >
> > >Kevin Wright.
> > >
> >
> > No version of Oracle 8i has been certified by Oracle for any version
> > of XP.
> > And 8i is to be desupported on December 31.
> > Why do people never verify on which O/Ses their products run, and
> > always *assume* all Microsux products are 100 percent downwards
> > compatible? They aren't
> >
> >
> > Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
> >
> > To reply remove -verwijderdit from my e-mail address
>
>

perhaps the cd is a bit dodgy, try copying the contents onto your hard disk and trying again Received on Sun Aug 31 2003 - 08:30:05 CDT