Re: developer installation problems

Frits,

I think there are two problems here. Firstly the installer of Developer 6 is not Y2K compliant (at least it was not in February this year when I downloaded it) and you have to download an updated installer. Secondly Developer 6 should be installed first and into its default home directory called "win95" (I believe). Dev6 does not support multiple homes and must live in the default home. Then install 8i products into a new Oracle home. After that things should work fine.
In you case I recommend to delete all Oracle keys from the registry and clear any path settings before re-installing.

Good Luck

Markus

Frits West <fritswest_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:391c3813.598517_at_news.xs4all.nl...
> I'm fairly new to Oracle. To make at least a start with learning
> Oracle / Oracle Developer. I downloaded (from technet) and installed
> Oracle 8i on my Windows NT Server and installed the client on my
> Windows 98 machine.
> Within a couple of minutes I had everything up and running including
> the ODBC link, which I tested using Ms Access.
>
> Then I continued with installing Devoloper (6?) on my Windows 98
> machine. Unfortunately I got the following message:
> The location specified d:Oracle\Ora81 is already used as an Oracle
> home for Oracle 816 Production" It cannot be used as an Oracle home
> for win95. Then I tried a different location and got the message that
> it could only be installed on OraHome81, which referred to (i thought
> d:\Oracle\Ora81) I tried to uninstall and reinstall again, but then
> things got really messy. It looks like the uninstall procedures are
> not really working.
>
> At one stage I had developer in place but I couldn't connect to the
> server using SQL*Plus. When I used the SQL*Plus from the Oracle 8i
> client installation there was no problem connect whatsoever.
>
> What am I doing wrong or how can I fix this?
>
> Any help, suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Frits West
>
Received on Sat May 13 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST