Re: Oracle 8.0.6 on Windows 2003

karenmiddleol_at_yahoo.com (Karen Middleton) wrote in message news:<a5fd468a.0409120222.26000cc_at_posting.google.com>...
> I need to install Oracle 806 on Windows 2003 for a legacy application
> that works only with Oracle 806 it is not certified for Oracle 816 or
> Oracle 9x or Oracle 10g.
>
> Can any of you please confirm whether Oracle 806 runs on Windows 2003.
> I managed to install Oracle 806 on Windows 2003 and it as been
> behaving miserably I cannot start some of the utilities like the TNS
> utilities I managed to uninstall most of it from Ora installer but not
> all of it before uninstalling I tried using Oradim80 to delete the
> Oracle instance created it just did not work.
>
> Please clarify where I am going wrong.
>
> Also, how do I clean up a messed Oracle install. The ora installer as
> removed some components and refuses to remain the remaining quite a
> few TNS listener and Oracle instance Windows Services is still
> remaining lingering. Is there any other tool apart from the
> Orainstaller that can cleanup an messed Oracle install. Is there a
> cleanup tool to forcefully cleanly remove an Oracle install.
>
> Thanks
> Karen

Is there some reason you're using Windows 2003? 8.0.6 isn't certified for any Windows platform newer than NT 4.0, so I'm afraid you are out of luck with respect to installing and running this release on Windows 2003. Possibly you can find an old Windows NT 4.0 system, or the installation disks (hopefully including SP6) to use. I understand the legacy application won't run on anything more recent than 8.0.6 (my sympathies) so the suggestions to use said versions are useless to you. Your only recourse is to find Windows NT 4.0 and use it for your database server O/S.

Oracle certifies versions with certain platforms for reliability and supportability issues. Yes, you did get 8.0.6 installed on Windows 2003, however the fact that most utilities won't work. or work reliably and repeatably, is one reason 8.0.6 is not certified for Windows 2003. Of course, the fact that 8.0.6 is a long desupported release is another reason; 9i, 9iR2 and 10g have all been released since Windows 2003 was announced by Microsoft, making them the releases of choice for this O/S.

I know you are in a position you can't change given the legacy software you are required to support. I hope you can find a Windows NT 4.0 machine to use, or that you can find the installation disks/CDs to put NT 4.0 on a more modern box (presuming it will install on a recent machine). It is the only operating system you can use for Oracle 8.0.6.

David Fitzjarrell Received on Sun Sep 12 2004 - 13:46:48 CDT