Re: Installation of Oracle PE 8.1.7 for Win98

[Quoted] Come on man, you forgot snake oil and powder of bat's wings...

I have CD with Oracle Personal Edition 8.1.7 for Windows 98 and simply [Quoted] want to install it on my laptop. I do not need Developer/Designer etc. I [Quoted] just want to develop tools in VB (ODBC) that would use Oracle database.

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Stjepan Brbot <Stjepan.Brbot_at_ZG.HiNet.HR>


"Hassan Ayub" <hassan_ayub_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi there,


>

>       First of all u should remove all oracle products from ur

computer, I


> mean Oracle 8 and if u have installed Dev 2000, also remove it....u


> will have to manually remove the program icons,their directories and

> then you should go into registry i.e., regedit at the command prompt

> and then remoce oracle from the nodes which come under software nodes

> in two main nodes...I don't remember their names so u will have to

> search for them in registry, one is probably local_machine (any way u

> can find them...its pretty easy)

>  After this change the system date of ur computer to year 1999 and

> then first of all install Dev 2000 (release 6) in the default

> directory(orawin95)...this will be installed easily..without any

> complications. ok after this start installing Oracle 8 in the same

> directory...u will be prompted with several messages that the current

> version of Oracle is old so would u like to continue...all u have to

> do is to click the Yes button...amother prompt will be displayed

> asking u to make changes to the AUTOEXEC.BAT...u should also click

> Yes... ok after installing Oracle 8 to about 30-40% (status bar), an

> error will be diaplayed in a modal window and ur installation will be

> halted...go onto the system tray, there will be a window with a Dos

> icon...somply right click on the window and select the close window

> option...u will be asked do u want to continue...u should select yes

> and then the installation will proceed till end and  the error window

> will still be on ur screen. Change the system date to present date and

> then reboot the system, the error window will be gone. OK now once

> again reinstall the Oracle 8 database just like the ususal way and

> keep pressing all the Yes options and this time there wont be any

> error displayed and ur installation will be complete.

> You can check this afterwards by connecting to the database via

> developer 2000 forms or reports etc.

> I'm also using Oracle on WIN ME and beleive me this works!!!

> do let me know if u still have any problems...

>

>

> regards

>

> Hassan

>

> hassan_ayub_at_yahoo.com