Re: Hard to install Oracle 8i

On 12 Jan 2002 12:59:41 -0800, chuckiesuperstar_at_yahoo.com (Chuckie Superstar) wrote:

>Hi everyone,
>
> I keep getting errors when installing Oracle 8i Personal Edition
>Version 8.1.5. This disk came with the text book I used a year ago.
>When I first installed the software a year ago, no problem, but when I
>wanted to use it again, it seems that it was not working properly so I
>uninstalled the whole program and now re-installing it is giving
>problems. Every time it reached 76% of installation completed when it
>is copying comUS.msb, it just stays there, it seems that it will never
>finishing installing, like some sort of an infinite loop that can exit
>only if set-up exits.
> What am I doing wrong? I was able to install the program on my
>computer (600Mhz, 128MB, 10GB Hard Drive, Win 98) before, but why not
>now?
>
>Thanks for the info,
>Chuckie Superstar
>chuckiesuperstar_at_yahoo.com

In the meantime 8.1.5 has been desupported and you automatically and without knowing upgraded Microsoft provided dll's, which Oracle 8.1.5 has never certified.
Please upgrade to Personal Oracle 8.1.7

Hth

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

To reply remove -verwijderdit from my e-mail address Received on Sat Jan 12 2002 - 15:23:38 CST