Re: Q for Oracle support - trial CD and Win 95

In article <1996May10.121623.3763_at_cs.mun.ca>, Michael Sullivan <michael9_at_cs.mun.ca> wrote:
>Hi,
> I've been trying to run the Oracle "Proof that you can" trial
>licence on my Win 95 machine. The installation is successful but an
>error occurs at the last step when the install procedure trys to start
>a database.
>
> When I run the database manager manually, and say start database,
>I get an error that I have no interface driver in memory. I don't want
>to run over a network, so do I really need sql*net?
>
> The installation startup said that Win 95 wasn't supported, is this
>the cause of my problems?

Exactly. You have the Win3.1 rdbms and as the doc says, it doesn't run on Win95... There is a trial version of po7win95-check out www.oracle.com

>
> I have no experience with Oracle as a DBA except for any items I
>accidentally picked up as a SQL programmer, although I did follow the
>provided instructions.
>
> I would like to replace the DB I currently recommend to customers with
>Oracle, so it is important to me that I get this working.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Michael SUllivan
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Received on Fri May 17 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST