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

Unfortunately the Database Creation phase seems to be able to take up all my remaining space on its own.

Surely there must be some way to tell OUI to put this stuff somewhere else? I know that some of it can be influenced with %TEMP%. But this doesn't seem to work for database creation.

Andy

"Daniel Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:3D2B649E.424EE335_at_exesolutions.com...
> 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
> >
> > To reply remove -verwijderdit from my e-mail address
>
> 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 Wed Jul 10 2002 - 05:35:51 CDT