Re: Install Free Trial ORACLE with an 8MB RAM PC

In article <41d016$q57_at_erinews.ericsson.se>, "wei he (martletts)" <etlwihe_at_etlxdmx.ericsson.se> wrote:

> I tried to install Personal ORACLE (free trial version) on a PC with
> only 8MB RAM. In the installation instruction, it says that with 8MB
> RAM, the PL/SQL should not be installed.

I installed the trial version for Windows NT on a PC with 8MB RAM.

My PO7 top dir structure and the PLSQL21 dir listing is

Directory of F:\ORANT

.            <DIR>         11.08.95   23:25
..           <DIR>         11.08.95   23:25
BIN          <DIR>         11.08.95   23:25
DBS          <DIR>         11.08.95   23:25
NETWORK      <DIR>         11.08.95   23:34
ORAINST      <DIR>         11.08.95   23:25
PLSQL21      <DIR>         11.08.95   23:28
RDBMS71      <DIR>         11.08.95   23:28
RELEASE  WRI        63 488 13.01.95   14:27
        9 file(s)         63 488 bytes

Directory of F:\ORANT\PLSQL21

.            <DIR>         11.08.95   23:28
..           <DIR>         11.08.95   23:28
CALLDEMO SQL         2 809 27.05.94   18:55
EXAMP1   SQL         1 241 06.06.94   14:33
EXAMP10  PC          4 730 06.06.94   14:33
EXAMP11  SQL         1 482 06.06.94   14:33
EXAMP12  SQL         1 453 06.06.94   14:33
EXAMP13  SQL         1 403 06.06.94   14:33
EXAMP14  SQL         1 056 06.06.94   14:33
EXAMP2   SQL         1 253 06.06.94   14:33
EXAMP3   SQL         1 159 06.06.94   14:33
EXAMP4   SQL         1 258 06.06.94   14:33
EXAMP5   SQL         1 365 06.06.94   14:33
EXAMP6   SQL         1 940 06.06.94   14:33
EXAMP7   SQL         1 016 06.06.94   14:33
EXAMP8   SQL         1 658 06.06.94   14:33
EXAMP9   PC          4 830 06.06.94   14:33
EXAMPBLD SQL         4 146 06.06.94   14:33
EXAMPLOD SQL         4 239 06.06.94   14:33
PCMUS    MSB        18 432 24.10.94   20:29
PLSUS    MSB        12 800 24.10.94   20:29
PXUS     MSB         2 560 24.10.94   20:29
SAMPLE1  SQL         1 057 06.06.94   14:33
SAMPLE2  SQL         1 145 06.06.94   14:33
SAMPLE3  SQL         1 378 06.06.94   14:33
SAMPLE4  SQL         3 731 06.06.94   14:33
SAMPLE5  PC          4 446 06.06.94   14:33
SAMPLE6  PC          3 593 06.06.94   14:33
       28 file(s)         86 180 bytes

> However, when I installed as CUSTOM, there was not such option for not
> installing PL/SQL. If you had successfully install a free trial ORACLE
> on a PC with 8 MB RAM, could you please let me know how did you solve
> the problem.

I went into Oracle Installer after the initial install and picked everything that was missing. <g>

-- 
   James Huang    <jhu_at_scandpower.no>  Fon: +476 381 4920
   Reservoir Analysis, Scandpower A/S  Fax: +476 381 7998
   PO Box 3, N-2007 Kjeller
   Norway