Re: Oracle 8i Enterprise Edition for NT installation problem

In article <7h90ut$683$1_at_news1.xs4all.nl>,   "wessie" <wessie_at_xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 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
>
>

I got my Oracle 8i (8.1.5) to work by shutting down the oracle 8.0 instance that was running and by selecting a different home directory than 8.0. After that, 8i installed fine. See if that helps.

Y Khid.

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