Re: Please help: Install Oracle 9i Enterprise on Windows 2000

bin-liang_at_uiowa.edu (Bin Liang) wrote in message news:<fe87aca4.0112041928.330e5ca7_at_posting.google.com>...

> Oracle Gurus,
> 
> I downloaded Oracle 9i Enterprise for NT from technet.oracle.com.
> Followed the instrusts on
> http://cisnet.baruch.cuny.edu/holowczak/oracle/install/9i/ , I
> unzipped the three files to Disk1, Disk2 and Disk3 directories. When I
> double-clicked the setup.exe in the Disk1, a sand clock appeared for
> less than a second then nothing else happened.
> 
> I rebooted and tried again and again. All the same. Please give me
> some advices. Thanks in advance.
> 
> Some info about my PC
> 
> HP P4,
> RAM 256m
> dual boot system with Windows ME
> O/S: Windows 2000 Pro in drive D, free space 15G
> 
> Bin

It looks like the bug with Pentium 4 with the installer still exists. The solution to this has been posted several times.

I have included it below for your reference.

Regards

Sybrand Bakker,
Senior Oracle DBA
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| From: Free (faure_at_free.fr)
| Subject: Re: Oracle 8.1.7 Windows 2000 Install does Not Work
| Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server
| View complete thread (4 articles)
| Date: 2001-04-11 07:40:14 PST
|
|
|
| This alert was nodified 16-January-2001 to Oracle : Oracle Universal
| Installer (OUI) for 8.1.x Hangs on Machines with Pentium 4
|
| Versions Affected :
|
| Oracle Universal Installer 1.6.0.9.0
| Oracle Universal Installer 1.7.0.19.0
| Oracle Universal Installer 1.7.1.9.0
|
| Platforms Affected :
|
| Any platform that uses the Intel Pentium 4 processor, with the Sun JRE
| and Symmantec JIT will encounter this problem. Windows NT, Windows 2000
| and NetWare platforms are confirmed to be affected.
|
| Solution :
|
| 1 - It is also recomended to configure Windows to use only 256 colors.
|
| 2 - Not only will OUI be affected by this bug, most of the post-install
| configuration tools will also be affected. Running these tools with "-nojit"
| specified will avoid the hang, but it is not simple to specify "-nojit" for
| some of the products.
|
| The following workaround works for the Windows operating system:
|
| a. Copy only the install directory from the CD to the hard disk ,say,
| e:\temp.
|
| b. Open oraparam.ini and make the following modifications (Assuming CD
| drive is f:)
|
| * Change the "SOURCE=" line to use the full path to the CD instead of a
| relative path. (i.e., SOURCE=f:\stage\products.jar)
|
| * Change the "JRE_LOCATION" line to use the full path to the CD instead of a
| relative path. (i.e.,
| JRE_LOCATION=f:\stage\Components\oracle\swd\jre\1.1.7\1\DataFiles\Expanded)
|
| * Change the "OUI_LOCATION" line to use the full path to the CD instead of a
| relative path. (i.e.,
| OUI_LOCATION=f:\stage\Components\oracle\swd\oui\1.6.0.9.0\1\DataFiles\Expand
| ed
|
| * Change the "JRE_MEMORY_OPTIONS" line to add "-nojit" as the first
| argument.
| (i.e., JRE_MEMORY_OPTIONS=-nojit -ms16m -mx32m)
| ^^^^^^
| * Other entries should remain the same
|
| c. Launch setup.exe from the temporary location on your hard drive (i.e.
| e:\temp\install\win32\setup.exe). This will use the modified
| oraparam.ini and pick up the information from the CD since the absolute
| locations are specified.
|
| Choose a Custom install and choose not to create a database during the
| install. This way, the Database Configuration Assistant will not be launched
| during installation.
|
| The Net8 Configuration Assistant will still be launched, and there is no way
| to suppress it. You will need to kill the Net8 Configuration Assistant if it
| hangs due to the bug. The installation still will have been successful, and
| you can run the DBCA and NetCA after installation.
|
| To kill NetCA if it hangs during installation:
| In the "Configuration Tools" window, highlight the "Net8 Configuration
| Assistant" and click "Stop". If that does not work, look for the most recent
| JRE process using the Task Manager, and kill it manually. NOTE: the OUI
| itself will also have a jre process. Be sure to kill the one with the most
| recent date, which should be the jre process being used for Net8CA, not the
| one for OUI itself.
|
| After killing the configuration tools and continuing through the
| installation
| to the "End of Installation" screen, you should modify the configuration
| tools
| to use "-nojit", then call the appropriate tools from the Start Menu.
|
| Once installation is complete, each of the following files in the
| ORACLE_HOME
| needs to be modified:
|
| assistants\dbca\dbassist.cl
| assistants\dbma\dbmig.cl
| assistants\ifa\ifa.cl
| bin\elogin.cl
| bin\owm.cl
| ldap\oidamdin\oidadmin.cl
| network\tools\netasst.cl
| network\tools\netca.cl
| owm\install\instelogin.cl
| owm\install\instowm.cl
|
| Edit the contents of the above files to add "-nojit" as shown below:
| Command=("C:\Program Files\Oracle\jre\1.1.7\BIN\JREW" -nojit -classpath ....
| this is the only thing you need to add --> ^^^^^^
|
| Then, launch the necessary tools, like Net8CA and DBCA from the Start Menu.
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HTH.

-- 
Galen Boyer
It seems to me, I remember every single thing I know.


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