Re: Question about installing designer.

    What Sybrand suggests will work. To do those steps, you'll blow away your existing database.

    The problem is that Designer thinks the default Oracle home has been "used up" and it requires the default home to be available for itself. If you feel like playing around there are three or four changes you can make to the registry so that Oracle no longer thinks the default home is gone.

    Back up your registry, then play awhile. Start in hkey_local_machine / software / oracle / all_homes.

Van

"Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message news:972242617.19288.1.pluto.d4ee154e_at_news.demon.nl...
>
> "Peter Holm" <PHolm_at_gmx.de> wrote in message
> news:kic6vs8856g376b838mvvvm6ogs906ubkn_at_4ax.com...
> > Hello,
> >
> > sorry for this newbie-questions but i could not find any hints in the
> > documentation about that:
> >
> > I try to install Designer on a NT Server. A 8.1.6 Database is installed
> > and running on that machine. If I try to install Designer into the
> > ORACLE HOME , installer tells me:
> >
> > The location specified, d:\oracle\orahome81\ is already used as an
> > Oracle Home for 'Oracle 816 Production'
> >
> > It cannot be used as an Oracle home for 'nt'
> >
> >
> > I never entered something like 'nt'. What´s that?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Have a nice thread,
> > Peter
>
> I will abstract previous posts on this subject for you, I didn't yet
 install
> developer on my own system yet, so I don't have real world experience.The
> posts are pretty consistent though.
>
> 1 Developer doesn't understand the multiple home concept which is
 mandatory
> for Oracle 8i
> 2 because of this you need to install Developer *first*, using the regular
> home c:\orant
> 3 After that you need to install Oracle 8i *in a different Oracle Home*
> 4 as you already have 8i installed, you now need to *de-install* 8i,
> complaints at Oracle.
> 5 as you probably end-up with different %ORACLE_HOME%\net[work|80]\admin
> directories, you need to setup sqlnet|net8 in both directories.
>
> Hth,
>
> Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
>
>
>
Received on Tue Oct 24 2000 - 02:55:18 CEST