Re: setup on 9i

Can we maybe, just maybe, get out of the habit, as a group, of parrotting "Pentium 4" anytime anyone reports a problem with the installer?

The Pentium 4 bug related to 8i, not 9i.

I've installed Oracle about a million times on Pentium 4 machines, no problem.

As for this particular problem, it's most mysterious but true that sod-all happens, from time to time, when you double-click the setup.exe icon in the root of the Disk 1 disk. Instead, find the autorun directory, and within that there'll be an autorun.exe (there'll also be an autorun.ico file, with the same icon, and unless you've switched off Windows' default to 'hide file extension for known file types' it's easy to confuse the two. You want the one that is about 340KB in size, not the one which is about 1.5KB).

That should bring up a red-and-white splash screen, from where you can click the 'Install/Deinstall products" option.

Quite what causes this problem, I have no idea. It doesn't happen at all as far as I can tell on Windows XP, and neither does it happen on Windows 2000 SP1. But W2000 SP2... different story!

Regards
HJR "DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:3DFF63A3.B345E4DE_at_exesolutions.com...
> Ted wrote:
>
> > I have downloaded all the files for 9i, unziped them into directories
> > (disk1 etc) and when I double click on the setup the hour glass appears
for
> > a few moments then goes away. The setup runs fine on other machines over
the
> > network... But not for mine (win2000 sp2) the 8i setup runs just fine.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas?
> >
> > Ted
>
> Because you have a Pentium 4.
>
> Go to otn.oracle.com and search for "Pentium 4".
>
> Daniel Morgan
>
Received on Tue Dec 17 2002 - 13:29:15 CST