Re: HELP: Trial Install of WGS 7.3 Fails on NT

In article <34C96817.259B_at_p3.net>, Jerry Gitomer <jgitomer_at_p3.net> wrote:
>Hi Mike,
>
>Check the log file that is created during the install process. I
>am not sure where it is on NT, but it does exist. I suspect that
>you will find that the control files are not being created either
>because you are out of space or the username you are using when
>you install doesn't have write permissions. The log file should
>help you find the problem.
>
>When it comes to installing software I am a fumble fingered clod,
>yet I managed to install 7.3 on NT 4.0 in less than three hours.
>(Next time I won't declare such big datafiles when I create my
>tablespaces.)
>
>Another thing you can do is select NOT to have the installer create
>the database and then create it by hand. (You can use the svrmgr
>to do this). As far as I am concerned the biggest advantage of
>doing so is that I can set up with a reasonable number of datafiles
>instead of the 20 datafile default value that Oracle uses on NT.
>
>Jerry
>
>
>Mike DiChiappari wrote:
>>
>> I am trying to install the trial version of Oracle Workgroup Server 7.3 on
>> NT 4.0 and it is failing. The installer makes it almost all the way
>> throught (99%) but freezes when trying to execute "createdb.sql". If I
>> kill the installer and try to run the database, it complains that the
>> control file is missing.

I don't know if this is the same thing, but on 7.3.4 and Solaris 2.6 I just did, creating the database gives an error in the middle of the database creation process, that you have to shutdown the already running database. Shutting it down in another window let the thing continue. I'm idly wondering if the NT install has the same wierdness but doesn't trap the error in the install window, and if you just shutdown the database in another window with the equivalent of svrmgrl> shutdown, it will mysteriously continue.

>>
>> I can also unfreeze the installer by killing the ORACLE73 process.
>> However, the installer log shows errors.
>>
>> I think I was able to install the software a while back. However, the
>> software on my machine has been upgraded (service pack 3 of NT plus other
>> stuff).
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike DiChiappari
>
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