Re: 9i install quit right after setting installation types

Konstantinos M wrote:

> "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*"

Be easy on Howard on this one. This issue has come up so frequently that he is just reflecting the feeling of many that a search of the google.com archives would have saved him having to post the same advice for the zillionth time.

Now to the problem. Were I in your position I would remove all traces of Oracle. Meaning run oradim, remove all file on the hard disk including those under PROGRAM FILES, clean out the registry, and then do a cold boot of the system before reinstalling from scratch.

Cleaning out the registry is dangerous so if you mess it up don't point your finger at me. You have been forwarned.

Daniel Morgan Received on Fri Feb 28 2003 - 10:50:44 CST