Re: Installing/learning Oracle

Wendy,

Windows 98 is not a server platform that can be used. As such, you will never get an option to install the server. Oracle only runs on Windows NT (Workstation or Server) When you pop in the CD in Windows NT it should ask you to install Oracle 8 or Oracle 8 Client or Custom. Choose Oracle 8 and it will install the RDBMS. Again, you have to run Windows NT.

Wendy Whitbeck wrote:

> Thanks for your reply, but when I run the installer, I never get an option
> to install the server. The only choices I get are to install the client,
> and the programmer.
>
> So if I just want to be able to run Developer 6, do I still need to have a
> server installation?
>
> Thanks,
> Wendy
> Barry <odbc_at_mailexcite.com> wrote in message
> news:01bea73c$7fd9a940$73f893cb_at_dba...
> > Wendy,
> >
> > Have you tried installing the DB server software yet ?
> >
> > You should (as long as you have enough mem and HDD space) be able to
> > run Oracle 8 plus whatever client software you want !
> >
> > I note from your second email that you have Oracle 8.0.5 but 8.1.5 client
> > software
> > you may want to backup your HDD before you start as multiple versions of
> > Oracle
> > on windows platforms is tricky.
> >
> > However I have exactly the same setup as yuo are planning
> >
> > Barry
> >
> > Wendy Whitbeck <whitveck_at_telusplanet.net> wrote in article
> > <w6L23.2008$NA2.109695_at_news1.telusplanet.net>...
> > > I sure hope some kind soul can lend me a hand with this. I am running a
> > > Windows 98 machine, and have all the latest and greatest Oracle goodies.
> > >
> > > What I need to know is this, is there any way to get enough of the
> Oracle
> > > installed to actually work on it? I have installed the client (which
> > does
> > > the dial up everytime, but there is no server to connect to) My machine
> > is
> > > not networked. I ultimately would like to be able to run some of the
> > db's,
> > > and the Developer and Designer. Is there any way to make it run from a
> > > traditional hard drive, without the server/dial up?
> > >
> > > If it can't happen with 98, will it work with NT workstation and not
> > server?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any and all help,
> > > Wendy
> > >
> > >
> > >
Received on Mon Jun 28 1999 - 10:09:18 CDT