Re: Issues Installing Oracle Developer Suite 10G for the first time on my PC?

On 1/03/2014 10:02 PM, Peter Schneider wrote:

>> I am trying to install Oracle Developer Suite 10G for the first time
>> on my PC(purchased the DVD from the market). When i run the setup
>> file, a black command window type appears and its written in white text:
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Checking installer requirements...
>>
>> Checking operating system version: must be 5.0, 5.1 or 5.2. Actual 6.1
>> Failed <<<<
>>
>> Exiting Oracle Universal Installer, log for this session can be found
>> at C:\Program
>> Files\Oracle\Inventory\logs\installActions2014-03-01_02-34-09PM.log
>>
>> Please press Enter to exit.
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> Can somebody tell me how to resolve this issue? I am using Windows 7.
>> Is it necessary to install Oracle Db first before installing the
>> Oracle Dev Suite?
>>
> I'm not totally sure (long time ago that I used this), but AFAIK
> DevSuite 10g is only supported upto Windows XP. You might want to check
> the Oracle OTN website for install prerequisites, minimum/maximum OS
> version etc.
>
> IIRC, on Windows 7 64 bit it is not working at all, but you can get it
> to install and run on W7 32bit with some quirks.

Wasn't there a d/l from microsoft that installed XP 32-bit inside 64-bit Win 7 as a VM? I recall reading about it when I was trying to get my scanners to work with W7/64. Received on Sun Mar 02 2014 - 07:11:00 CET