If the machine is a pentium 4 then there is a known issue with the JRE
version that ships with Oracle. From memory the solution is to copy the cd
to disk and REPLACE the JRE with 1.18 (not just install a different one
elsewhere). This is documented on metalink if you have a support contract or
google if you don't.
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission Uk
"Turtle" <turtle*no-spam*@iislands.com> wrote in message
news:J7mD7.346648$ME2.37788321_at_typhoon.kc.rr.com...
> Hi Everyone.
>
> Well I have been reading this group for a while and had not paid much
> attention to the issues involved with loading 8i on a Win 2K box. The only
> thing I knew was that there had been issues as there seems to be with any
> Oracle install. (I never did get it to load on Linux so I used MySQL)
Well,
> now I have to load it on Win 2K for a project and sure enough I put it all
> on the local drive and confidently clicked on setup and nothing happened.
A
> screen flickers and then nothing. I remember someone talking about this in
a
> post and was hoping they wouldn't mind pointing me in the right direction
to
> finish this job.
>
> Thanks
>
> Turtle
>
>
>
>
>
Received on Tue Oct 30 2001 - 03:45:18 CST
