Re: Oracle 8i Personal Edition and Windows ME NOT working!

Stop right there. You CAN run Personal Oracle 8i on Windows ME, *without* having to install Windows 98 first. Read the following:

[thanks to sandman434 (sandman434_at_my-deja.com) in a post dated 10/30/2000]

...found it on Oracle Technet and it worked for me.

Oracle 8.1.5 Personal Edition
Oracle does not support installing version 8.1.5 PE into Windows Millennium. As an unsupported workaround, you may add the following line to the [compatibility95] section of win.ini prior to installation:
Jrew=0x00080000

After setup is complete, Oracle will recommend a reboot.

There is one additional step necessary prior to reboot; Oracle may add a non-standard path statement to the autoexec.bat file. Please modify this SET PATH statement to use short-filenames if you find a quoted LFN string represented as part of the path. You can confirm that the path was merged successfully into the registry after reboot by examining the PATH variable in the registry at
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\Environment

Symptoms of a missing Oracle path statement in the registry are that Net8 Easy Config will not launch.

Please note that Oracle does not support the use of this product in Windows ME, but have authorized these workarounds for testing purposes only.

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