Re: setup on 9i

"Ted" <root_at_aol.com> wrote in message
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> I have waited a while, and yes an admin account.... This previously had
> 8.1.7 on it...!

The other machines you reported installing correctly... did they previously have 8.1.7 on them? Or is yours the only machine to have a prior Oracle install?

If yes, then I think that's your problem (I'm afraid I get rather monotonous on the subject of needing to install Oracle onto a 'clean' machine). Assuming the 8i installation is expendable, then it's time to

(a) use oradim -DELETE etc etc to manually remove all previous Oracle installations
(b) use Windows Explorer to manually delete the complete 8i Oracle installation tree
(c) use regedt32 to delete the entire set of Oracle registry entries relating to the previous installation. Mostly, that's under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE, but you might want to use the 'Find' function to locate other, more hidden, entries.

It's a bit odd, actually, because apart from strange problems with the v8i intelligent agent versus the 9i intelligent agent, 8i and 9i should (and can) co-exist without too much hassle.

If all of that's a pain in the neck, you could try getting a bit experimental (and here I tend to get a bit monotonous on another subject). Since you've downloaded the entire 9i install, I take it you have a decent Internet link. If so, take a visit to www.vmware.com, and download the trial edition of VMware. Install on your machine, and get a trial licence. Then install Windows 2000 SP2 on a new virtual machine, and see if the installation works flawlessly (my bet is that it will).

The download is only 18MB or so, and I can usually knock up an SP2-patched Windows 2000 installation in about 40 minutes.

What does this prove? Er, that VMware is a very useful experimentation tool, and a perfect way of obtaining a 'clean slate' on an otherwise well-used PC; and also that a clean install works every time!

OK, so maybe that's a tad drastic an approach, but I'm now frankly a bit stumped. It's definitely not the Pentium 4 bug, and 9i installations are usually totally painless. So it's *something* about your machine, but I couldn't say what for sure.

Keep me posted.

Regards
HJR
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> "Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
> news:a6LL9.5130$jM5.15010_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
> > "Ted" <root_at_aol.com> wrote in message
> > news:atnup9$124fr$1_at_ID-144666.news.dfncis.de...
> > > So now when I click auto run it brings up the splash screen.. I click
> > > install/Deinstall, hard drive spins for about 30 sec and the splash
> screen
> > > goes away and nothing... Any ideas now?
> > >
> >
> > Are you sure you're being patient enough? The splash screen does
> disappear,
> > but the Welcome screen of the universal installer should eventually pop
> up.
> >
> > It can take a minute or so sometimes.
> >
> > If that's not it, how clean a machine is this? Any prior Oracle
> > installations? Of different versions?
> >
> > And who are you logged on as? A local administrator account, I hope
> (though
> > since all your other machines installed without a hitch, I expect you've
> got
> > this bit sorted).
> >
> > Keep me posted...
> >
> > Regards
> > HJR
> >
> >
> >
> > > "Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
> > > news:tPKL9.5128$jM5.14658_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
> > > > AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!
> > > >
> > > > These are perfect instructions for dealing with the well-known
Pentium
> 4
> > > bug
> > > > in oracle 8i (repeat: EIGHT EYE).
> > > >
> > > > Now read the title of this thread, and see their relevance for this
> > > poster.
> > > >
> > > > Er, none.
> > > >
> > > > As I said elsewhere, every man and his dog has got it into his head
> that
> > > > "installer problem=pentium 4 bug". It's not true, and we need to
lose
> > the
> > > > knee-jerk reaction and actually read what people are posting
> carefully.
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > > HJR
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > "clueless" <ro_cright_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > > > news:1TKL9.27$j5.1105_at_news...
> > > > > Installing Oracle on Pentium IV systems.
> > > > >
> > > > > 1. Create a temporary directory on your server.
> > > > > 2. Copy the entire contents of the Oracle RDBMS Server CD to the
> > > > temporary
> > > > > directory created in step 1.
> > > > > 3. Search the directory structure created in Step 1 for the
> existence
> > > of
> > > > > the filename symcjit.dll.
> > > > > 4. Rename each copy of the symcjit.dll to symcjit.old.
> > > > > 5. Run the setup.exe from the \install\win32 directory and
install
> > > Oracle
> > > > > 8.1.x(or 9i) and related products.
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > Clueless
> > > > >
> > > > > "Ted" <root_at_aol.com> wrote in message
> > > > > news:atnl57$spf5$1_at_ID-144666.news.dfncis.de...
> > > > > > 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
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Received on Tue Dec 17 2002 - 14:26:25 CST