Re: Re-Installing Oracle 9.2 on Solaris

Oracle stashes the location of the inventory in: /var/opt/oracle/oraInst.loc

You will need to rename or delete that file.

--Peter

Richard Abrahams wrote:
> Dear Oracle Installers,
>
> I have a rather odd problem! I installed Oracle but screwed up a thing
> or two and decided to start afresh. I did the following,
>
> 1) Removed the whole of the ...\9.2 directory structure
> 2) Removed all relevant \tmp files/directories
> 3) Relocated the Oracle home directory (removed the original home
> directory)
>
> Now when I try to install I get an error message (before the Installer
> screen even appears) that I don't have permissions to write the
> inventory to "/u1/ora9home" - which was the original home directory,
> where the inventory was originally written and which now no longer
> exists.
>
> Why aren't I being prompted for a new location for the Inventory? I
> assume that Oracle must have stored a vriable for this location
> somewhere on the system but I can't find it!
>
> Any suggestions gratefully recieved.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Richard Abrahams
Received on Wed May 28 2003 - 11:41:01 CDT