Re: Oracle8i, Win98 -> No way to install

From: Sybrand Bakker <oradba_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 17:17:42 +0100
Message-ID: <9j0f1ucmcp4ptvl247ttiku3600kqauea9@4ax.com>

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:02:43 +0100, "Opi" <opi_at_volny.cz> wrote:

>Thanks. I found a lot of advices, but none of them includes a valid path to
>the patch. Where is it to be found?
>And furher, I had a look at
>http://otn.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle8i/doc_library/nt_817_installguide
>/start/ch1.htm#1338318
>And there I found that Oracle8i server can't be run on Win98. Is that true?
>If so, I really wonder what damn version I have found.
>Whose was that idea to use java for installer. Java was intended to control
>the microwave oven, not to install databases. Ondra
>

Two solutions below with 1 one search request at google

>

Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) for RDBMS 8.1.x Hangs on Machines with Pentium 4 Processors

Versions Affected

Oracle Universal Installer for RDBMS 8.1.x

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.

Description

When installing Oracle *8.1.x Server Products with the Oracle Universal Installer on machines that use the Sun JRE and Symmantec JIT, the
installer
hangs.

Specifically for the Windows platform, versions of OUI lower than 1.7.1.9.0 will encounter this problem.

Likelihood of Occurrence

Any platform that uses the Intel Pentium 4 processor, with the Sun JRE and Symmantec JIT, OUI version 1.7.1.9.0 and earlier, will encounter this problem.

Windows NT, Windows 2000 and NetWare platforms are confirmed to be affected.

Possible Symptoms

The failure typically is that the affected application simply terminates.

Workarounds

Solution 1.

Obtain patch number 1507768 from Metalink
unzip the patch
unjar the contents
Go to the directory

.\cd\Disk1\stage\Components\oracle.swd.jre\1.1.7.30/1\DataFiles\Expan

ded\jre\win32\bin\symcjit.dll

rename symcjit.dll to symcjit.dll.ori

5. Invoke OUI and install OUI to disk

cd ./cd/Disk1/stage/win32/setup.exe

6. Use the installed OUI to install the RDBMS

7. Invoke OUI from the start menu, and install RDBMS software.

Solution 2.

Create a temporary directory on your server.
Copy the contents of the Oracle REBMS Server CD to the temporary directory created in step 1.
Search the directory structure created in step 1 for the existence of the filename symcjit.dll.
Rename each copy of the symcjit.dll to symcjit.old.
Run the setup.exe from the \install\win32 directory and install Oracle 8.1.x.

Patches

Currently there is not a patched installer available to deal with this problem, one of the two workarounds listed above must be used.

References

[BUG:1507768] INSTALLER FAILS WHEN RUNNING ON NEW PENTIUM 4 (IV) PROCESSORS [BUG:1507946] INSTALLER FAILS WHEN RUNNING ON NEW INTEL PENTIUM 4 (IV) PROCESSORS

                            Oracle Support Services

And

The following is a step by step procedure to successfully installing Oracle Services against an Intel Windows server:

1- Download JRE 1.2.2_008 from the following link(s):

http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/old.html

http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/jre/download-windows.html

2- Install JRE 1.2 and extract the "symcjit.dll" file.

3- copy your entire Oracle 8.1.x CD to your local

file system (example: d:\OraServ816)

4- Replace d:\OraServ816\stage\Components\oracle.swd.jre

\1.1.7.xx\1\DataFiles\Expanded\jre\win32\bin\symcjit.dll

with the new one from (2) step above

[caution]

5- Add this to the path environment variable:

C:\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.2\bin\classic;

such that jvm.dll can be located and run in accordance.

6- Run the setup utility from the main local media folder

(example: d:\OraServ816) or d:\OraServ816\install\win32\setup.exe

This should allow you to install the Universal Installer and the Server Product.

In order to successfully install other Oracle Products such as the documentation, etc, it would be best to invoke the OUI from you local media versus relying on the installer from product CD.

Hope this helps anyone with the P4, Win 2K Oracle RDBMS Services installation issues.

You are confusing Oracle server and Personal Oracle. You downloaded Personal Oracle, not Oracle Server

Regards

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

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