Re: developer installation problems

[Quoted] Hi Frits:

    Markus is right that Developer needs the default home. However, you can [Quoted] install the products in any order you wish. If you install the database [Quoted] first make sure to name the Oracle home something other than the default - [Quoted] that's the one you need to save for Developer.

Van

Markus Janscha <markus_at_janscha.co.uk> wrote in message news:8fjn6t$jlr$1_at_gxsn.com...
> Frits,
>
> I think there are two problems here. Firstly the installer of Developer 6
> is not Y2K compliant (at least it was not in February this year when I
> downloaded it) and you have to download an updated installer. Secondly
> Developer 6 should be installed first and into its default home directory
> called "win95" (I believe). Dev6 does not support multiple homes and must
> live in the default home. Then install 8i products into a new Oracle
 home.
> After that things should work fine.
> In you case I recommend to delete all Oracle keys from the registry and
> clear any path settings before re-installing.
>
> Good Luck
>
> Markus
>
> Frits West <fritswest_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:391c3813.598517_at_news.xs4all.nl...
> > I'm fairly new to Oracle. To make at least a start with learning
> > Oracle / Oracle Developer. I downloaded (from technet) and installed
> > Oracle 8i on my Windows NT Server and installed the client on my
> > Windows 98 machine.
> > Within a couple of minutes I had everything up and running including
> > the ODBC link, which I tested using Ms Access.
> >
> > Then I continued with installing Devoloper (6?) on my Windows 98
> > machine. Unfortunately I got the following message:
> > The location specified d:Oracle\Ora81 is already used as an Oracle
> > home for Oracle 816 Production" It cannot be used as an Oracle home
> > for win95. Then I tried a different location and got the message that
> > it could only be installed on OraHome81, which referred to (i thought
> > d:\Oracle\Ora81) I tried to uninstall and reinstall again, but then
> > things got really messy. It looks like the uninstall procedures are
> > not really working.
> >
> > At one stage I had developer in place but I couldn't connect to the
> > server using SQL*Plus. When I used the SQL*Plus from the Oracle 8i
> > client installation there was no problem connect whatsoever.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong or how can I fix this?
> >
> > Any help, suggestions would be appreciated.
> >
> > Frits West
> >
>
>
Received on Sat May 13 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST