Re: how to deinstall oracle cleanly?

Christoph Kukulies <kuku_at_accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote in message news:<30hio9F2vr56aU1_at_uni-berlin.de>...
> I had a 9.0.1 on a win2003 server recently and today I tried to install
> 10.1.0 on that machine.
>
> Somehow deinstallation of 9.0.1 which was oin that machine before
> did not work smoothly. I tried to remove registry entries but
> could not remove all for some reason.
>
> During installation of 10g I was told that an instance (ORCL) was already
> there and I should use another name. Anyway, to make it short, the 10g
> installation failed. I have an empty pfile directory in admin\orcl\pfile
> and would like to start over the 10g installation without
> having to reinstall the whole OS.
>
> Any clues how to totally get rid of any traces of Orcale and get a clean
> environment to start a fresh installation?

1. fdisk
2. clean install of w2k3 svr

had to do this last night when I botched an upgrade of the w2k HAL from uni to multi processor. A bearded old guy appeared and said "you have chosen poorly" and screams arose in the server room.

THAT is how you know that your backups work - when the entire storage configuration was lost and the partitions on the RAID vols are no longer there.

after that it was smooth sailing for the rest of the 8.1.7 to 9.2 upgrade.

-bdbafh Received on Wed Nov 24 2004 - 14:37:01 CST