Re: Installing 9i fails - insufficient space on C: drive

Sybrand Bakker wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 22:05:59 +0100, "Andy Kent"
> <andykent.bristol.DontSpamMe_at_virgin.net> wrote:
>
> >Attempting to install 9i on w2k barfs when it tries to copy the sample
> >database because there isn't enough room on my C: drive. But it seemed happy
> >with the available space before it started the install. How to I fix this,
> >other than by not installing a sample database?
>
> Clean up the C: drive?
> The installer is written in Java, which means using lots of virtual
> memory. Depending on your configuration the available disk space may
> be insufficient.
> Every Microsoft installation program has the problem it can't account
> for already installed software, when it is checking free space.
> How do you address this issue? By cleaning up the disk, I guess.
>
> Regards
>
> Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
>
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Or, alternatively, run along behind Oracle while it is installing and delete the 800+MB of help files with extensions like .MOV, .AVI, .PDF, .HTML, etc. if you don't need them.

Daniel Morgan Received on Tue Jul 09 2002 - 17:33:48 CDT