Re: setup on 9i

"DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:3E00B5C5.C0B6E55E_at_exesolutions.com...
> "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.

Maybe, maybe not. But the poster also mentioned that he'd installed 8i successfully on the same machine, which definitely ruled out the P4 bug.

Regards
Miss Marple

>
> Daniel Morgan
>
Received on Wed Dec 18 2002 - 13:07:29 CST