Re: Oracle 8i Enterprise Edition for NT installation problem

8i cannot ne installed into the same home directory) as any previous veriosn of Oracle, to that extent yes it is true the two are incompatible.

After you start the unvoversl installer you are prompted to slect the new home so typeint so dont chose defautl_home but create a new one called say ORA8 in C:\ORA8. then go through the typical install, you will be given a chance to say you want to "upgrade" your 805 database then the installer will do everythign else for you.

It is really straight forward except at the end of the day you have two sets of directories and about 600mb of wasted space<g>

Things to watch out for are to make sure that you old listner gets set to manual start, actaully you might as well remove it, and if you have any snapshots or jobs these will be set to manual as job_queue_processes gets disabled for some reason.

You should also note that you "new" initorcl.ora actuall "call" the old one so dont delete the old one thinking its not used anymore<g>.

Now after all that if you get to play with the new COM option I would like to hear from anyone that actually has got this working properly.

Rob

wessie wrote in message <7h90ut$683$1_at_news1.xs4all.nl>...
>Hello,
>
>I've noticed some postings in this newsgroup about installation problems on
>NT, but alas, these postings are expired, so I can't read them anymore.
>So maybe I'm asking something here that has just been discussed...
>
>I've just recieved Oracle 8i Enterprise Edition from the OTN.
>When I try to do a typical install into my default_home, I get (more or
>less) the next error-messages :
>Can not install, because :
>1) you don't have administrator rights -> not true
>2) insufficient disk-space -> not true
>3) you tried to install into an oracle home which was created with an
older,
>incompatible version of Oracle Installer -> maybe true ?
>
>I'm trying to upgrade from Oracle 8.0.5, which was installed with Oracle
>Installer. Oracle 8i comes with Oracle Universal Installer. Are those two
>incompatible ? I find this hard to believe.
>Has anybody encountered (and solved) this problem yet ?
>
>Thanks a lot,
>
> Wessel van Alphen
>
>
>
Received on Tue May 11 1999 - 06:41:44 CDT