Re: Problem with Oracle installer 8.0.4

From: Brian W. Chester <bwchester_at_home.com>
Date: 2000/02/15
Message-ID: <Mscq4.6553$a27.176461_at_news1.rdc1.mb.home.com>#1/1


The installer packed with 8.0.4.0.0 is ver 3.3.0.x which is not Y2K compliant!. You must download a patched installer from the oracle web site. I have also seen this at the following site: http://www.chow1.myweb.nl

HTH Brian.

<jfdavis_at_attglobal.net> wrote in message news:38A8A86D.78B92F29_at_attglobal.net...
> You aren't alone, but I don't have the answer. I have run into a dozen
 instances
> of this happenning. Even the latest patch to 8.0.4 errors during
 installation.
> I haven't figured it out, it works on some machines.
>
> garych wrote:
>
> > I am using NT 4.0 Server with SP 6.0. I am trying to intall
> > Oracle 8.0.4 client on this machine. At end of installation I
> > got an system error saying something like memory asscess
> > valiation. The installation seems ok. But when I try to start
> > the installer again to install other component like programer, I
> > got same kind of error right after the installer started. The
> > error come from MSVCRT.DLL and it seems the one of the string
> > pointer for time buffer did not allocate and endup with 0. So
> > when the time function trying to format it the error happened.
> > Now I can not do anything about installer including uninstall.
> > How can I fix it? Is this a bug?
> >
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Received on Tue Feb 15 2000 - 00:00:00 CET

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