as well as deleting the oracle registry keys also delete all oracle related
directories and services (including program files\oracle which contains the
inventory of installed products.)
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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"Andy Kent" <andykent.bristol.DontSpamMe_at_virgin.net> wrote in message
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> I've been trying unsuccesfully to reinstall Oracle 8i on a W2K box. As
> suggested here I've consulted Note 124353.1 on the subject of manual
> reinstall and removed everything it says from the HDD and registry. Still
> the reinstall fails without error at 3%.
>
> I've searched the registry for any key containing "ora" and removed any
that
> look vaguely Oracle-related. Still no luck. I've even tried reformatting
my
> C: drive and doing a clean install of W2K (though with the other drives in
> place). Still no.
>
> The weirdest thing of all is that at each reinstall attempt, UI knows the
> name and destination of my last installation attempt. Weird or what.
>
> Can anyone tell me where it gets the name and destination from? Is there a
> hidden file I'm mising or something?
>
> The only other thing I can think of is that I've upgraded my chip and MoBo
> to a 1.4GHz Athlon since the first time I installed 8i.
>
> Any clues?
>
>
> --
> -Andy Kent-
> Bristol, England
>
> Remove '.DontSpamMe' from return address to respond.
>
>
>
Received on Thu Jan 31 2002 - 08:16:20 CST
