Re: Installing PO7

In article <3teg4t$143_at_news.onramp.net>, Edd Plesko <hdshou_at_onramp.net> wrote:
>I downloaded Personal Oracle 7 from www.oracle.com. I did not install Win32s
>that came with PO7 since I already have Version 1.25 running (PO7 version is
>1.20). I'm installing on 486/50 16 meg memory and lots of disk space. I
>have Windows for Workgroups 3.11 installed. I have two questions about the
>install.
>
>Q1) During the install I got a message stating that the oracle installer
>sensed I didn't have enough memory and to continue at my own risk. I have 16
>meg of memory with no other programs running at the time of install. I
>noticed on this forum that others are seeing the same problem. Is this a
>show stopper?? By the way, I continued.
>
>Q2) Towards the end of the install process I got a message stating that the
>installer could not start up the database. I got an error message in the log
>file as follows:
> ORA-09368: Windows 3.1 Two-task driver unable to spawn ORACLE
> DBA-00302: not connected to a database
>I could not find the ORA-09368 message in any documentation.
>
>Any help on these two problems would be greatly appreciated.
>
A number of people have noted that there is a memory use spike at install time while the initial database is created. If you do not have any virtual memory I would suggest creating an 8mb swap file for install. Received on Wed Jul 05 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST