install problems

From: Roy Gordon <royg_at_semantic.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 22:09:31 GMT
Message-ID: <3B818A89.58FDCB73_at_semantic.com>

I've tried to install both personal oracle8 and oracle9 lite on my win98 SE machine and have the same problem with both.

After downloading the zip file and then unzipping it into a directory, the setup.exe found there reports that it can't find the jre.

Each attempt to fix the problem simply runs into a further install problem (I won't detail them) so I'm stuck.

Is there something basic I'm missing? I mean, I would have expected this to install right out of the 'box'.

TIA

• Roy

Here's the error message I get with trying to run setup.exe from the directory in which I've unzipped the files. Note the inconsistent path name delimiters of both '/' and '\' in the same pathname. Also, the JRE is in fact installed per the default java installation, although it is a later rev, 1.2.1, I believe.

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Oracle Universal Installer

        The Java Run Time Environment was not found at ../../stage/Components/oracle.swd.jre/1.1.6.30/1/DataFiles/Expanded/jre\win32\bin\jre.exe

	Hence, the Oracle Universal Installer cannot be run.
	Please visit http://www.javasoft.com and install JRE version 1.1.7 and

try again.

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Received on Tue Aug 21 2001 - 00:09:31 CEST