Re: 8i install with msvcrt.dll

Well here I am again - its nice to see previous posts being retrieved from deja - a form of immortality in a way because if I had been 'run over by a bus' yesterday, my previous posts would stil be available...

Anyhoo - this problem, needless to say, is just another example of 'DLL Hell'.

The time you spend solving this DLL problem is actually time that you could have invested studying more about Unix (whether Linux, Solaris, DG-UX Tru-64, HP-UX and so on). There's little long-term payback for spending time fixing an application on NT.

If you have to stick with NT (until you change jobs, of course) -- strip out NT and re-install it. Seems to work for most MS systems. If this seems unacceptable - well that's just another reason not to use NT isn't it.

Do yourself and your career a favour and don't try and use a product of Oracle's quality on N.T.

Let us not forget, Oracle was running on Unix boxen and providing RDBMS services to corporations while MS were selling MS-DOS for I.B.M. Personal Computer clones.

David Pomphrey, OCP MCP B.Tech.

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Galen Boyer wrote:
>
> I downloaded 8i enterprise edition for windows nt from technet.
>
> I started the install and immediately got the error that it
> couldn't write the msvcrt.dll file into the winnt directory.
>
> My question goes like this:
>
> I ignored the error and let Oracle continue the install.
> Everything else happened successfully. Does anybody know
> whether I can just ignore this early error, or will I run
> across issues down the road?
>
> I also searched on dejanews and found two threads that looked
> promising but I couldn't find the threads in this newsgroup. I
> will cite them below. Maybe they will help jog someone's memory.
> David P. and Sybrand Bakker where the two posters of answers.
>
> Thanks
>
> ,----[ David P's post ]
> | From: DNP <High.Flight_at_btinternet.com>
> | Subject: Re: Problem: Installing oracle client on Win98
> | Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server
> | Date: 01 Jun 2000 00:00:00 GMT
> |
> | There's a Year 2000 bug in some installer programs manufactured a few
> | months ago. I met an error message which mentioned exactly the same DLL
> | (MSVCRT.DLL - the MS Visual C Runtime libraries).
> |
> | The problem was solved thusly :-
> |
> | Oracle's advice is to download the Y2K compliant installer program from
> | their support website ( support.oracle.com leading to the Metalink
> | sites).
> |
> | Therefore, you need a support contract with Oracle or if that is not in
> | place, you might have to try and download a recent version of some
> | client software of Oracle's, which hopefully will contain a recent
> | version of the installer program.
> |
> | David P. OCP (DBA) MCP (TCP/IP)
> |
> | Glasgow, Scotland.
> |
> | sean wrote:
> | >
> | > Hi all,
> | > I was prompt the following error message, when installing Oracle client on
> | > my notebook win98. How to resolve this error, please help...
> | >
> | > ORAINST caused an invalid page fault in
> | > module MSVCRT.DLL at 0177:7801b763.
> | > Registers:
> | > EAX=0064cc4c CS=0177 EIP=7801b763 EFLGS=00010246
> | > EBX=00000000 SS=017f ESP=0064cc00 EBP=78040cf0
> | > ECX=00000000 DS=017f ESI=00bf66d1 FS=3917
> | > EDX=0064cc5c ES=017f EDI=00000000 GS=0000
> | > Bytes at CS:EIP:
> | > 8b 51 10 42 52 e8 f1 02 00 00 83 c4 10 5f 5e 5d
> | > Stack dump:
> | > 00000002 0064cc4c 0064cc5c 00000000 00bf66d1 78040cf0 00000000 7801b529
> | > 0000006d 00000000 0064cc4c 0064cc5c 78040cf0 00e191a4 00da2540 00000001
> | >
> | > Thanks
> | > Sean
> `----
>
> ,----[ Sybrand Bakker's post ]
> | From: "Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
> | Subject: Re: Install Oracle8 on Win95
> | Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server
> | Date: 11 Apr 2000 00:00:00 GMT
> | X-NNTP-Posting-Host: sybrandb.demon.nl:212.238.21.78
> |
> | Are you installing the server or enterprise edition?
> | That's NT only.
> |
> | Hth,
> |
> | Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
> |
> | John Smith <gsrivat_at_yahoo.com> schreef in berichtnieuws
> | 38f372c8$1_at_rpc1284.daytonoh.ncr.com...
> | > Install Oracle8 on Win95
> | >
> | > I'm trying to install Oracle 8 on a Win95 machine. I get
> | > an error called invalid MSVCRT.DLL. Can anyone tell me
> | > how I can install it using the oracle installer on Developer 2000.
> | > Or if you can point me to documentation which explains how
> | > to install on Windows 95 platform, that would be of great help.
> | > Thanks in advance.
> | > SG
> | >
> | >
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> --
> Galen Boyer
> New Orleans is sink'n man and I don't want to swim.
Received on Sat Sep 23 2000 - 15:45:51 CDT