Re: setup on 9i

"Howard J. Rogers" wrote:

> 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
> >

Good point.

But my recollection is the the bug still existed in 9.0.1.

Daniel Morgan Received on Wed Dec 18 2002 - 11:52:05 CST