Re: 9i install quit right after setting installation types

"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:pan.2003.02.28.09.37.50.433537_at_yahoo.com.au...
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 13:51:19 +0000, Konstantinos M wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I went through many posts here and elsewhere but didn't find a
> > solution to my problem so I could definitely use some help.
> > I am installing 9i on a P4 Win 2K machine which has already 8.1.7 to a
> > different oracle_home. I am having a problem because OUI quits right
> > after I pick the installation type (enterprise, standard, whatever),
> > and the installaction.log mentions no error but its last entry is
> > about prerequisite queries. I don't think it's the P4 bug, metalink
> > says this problem was fixed with 9i but just to make sure I am
> > installing from HD after renaming the symsomething.dll but still have
> > the problem. Does anybody have any ideas what could be wrong ? I am
> > starting to get kinda desperate.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > Kostas
>
>
> I wish we could clear this nonsense up once and for all. Oracle 8i (that's
> EIGHT EYE) was released before the Pentium 4 processor, and hence the
> Pentium 4 bug. Oracle 9i was released after the Pentium 4 processor had
> been around for a long time, and hence THERE IS NO PENTIUM 4 BUG IN 9I.
>
> There are zero problems installing 9i on a Windows machine that is
> *clean*.
>
> And that's all the advice I can give you.
>
> Sorry
> HJR
Howard, I think you need a vacation.
Anyway, since we both agree it's not the P4 bug (stupid me tried everything cause I was desperate), and apart from yelling, do you have a solution ? If not, your advice besides wrong (*) is completely useless and your answer irritating. It's like saying to a guy with a half loaded truck and loading problems that they would not have problems loading an empty one. Um ok, yeah, thanks I guess.
I take the chance to mention here that older (2002) threads in Metalink with the exact same problem are unfortunately still open.

(*) At home I had a clean w2k machine with NOTHING on, where I tried to install 9i. The installer told me at the beginning that it cannot be installed without service pack 1 (which I hadn't installed) and after I installed the latter smoothly OUI aborted at 30something% saying that the SP1 was not installed. So much for the "zero problems installing 9i on a Windows machine that is*clean*" Received on Fri Feb 28 2003 - 04:53:18 CST