Re: 8.1.6 install on NT vanishes

This Universal Inataller is so bad, it's hard to believe that Oracle shipped it this way. It's slow and unstable.

Steve Haynes wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> A strange one this, a newly installed NT4 workstation
> with sp5 on. I try to install 8.1.6 and it chugs along
> and then just vanishes, no process left, no errors in
> the install log - nothing!
>
> I've successfully installed this on many servers/workstations
> and I can't find anything different about this one.
>
> The last thing installed according to the log is OLE DB
> something or other.
>
> It behaves the same on minimal install and typical.
>
> I have nothing to go on, I've removed the norton anti-virus
> software and checked the graphics colours=65k (old bug with some
> assistants, hey I was desperate), and installed the Microsoft
> management console, none of which made any difference.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Steve
Received on Fri Aug 04 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT