Re: Upgraded from win98 to win2000 and no more oracle

From: Sybrand Bakker <gooiditweg_at_sybrandb.nospam.demon.nl>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 06:24:49 +0100
Message-ID: <buappv0b1dpuvg3d152vjdp3jepergta0r@4ax.com>

On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 23:10:19 GMT, "Alex Thomas" <alex.thomas_at_mindspring.com> wrote:

>I was running oracle 8i (personal addition) on my home win98 computer I
>upgraded my computer to win2000. After the upgrade the computer no logger
>recognized the oracle install. I could not reinstall it or uninstall it.
>Can anyone tell me how to manually get oracle off my computer so I can
>reinstall it under win2000? I do not need to keep any data in the database,
>it was purely for "practice" and experimentation.
>

Apart from the sensible advice by Hans Forbrich, there are separate editions of Oracle for win98 and win nt/2k. You are not running the correct edition for win2k, and you need to download the NT personal edition.

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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

Received on Sun Oct 26 2003 - 23:24:49 CST