Re: Problem installing 10g on a laptop with DHCP

Patrick Dean Rusk wrote:
> I've installed Oracle 10g on my development Windows XP Professional laptop,
> which has both Ethernet and Wireless networking using DHCP on both. In the
> process of installing and creating a sample database, it brings up 3 or 4
> dialogs about not being able to find the IP address of the machine, to which
> I click the button to use the default value.
>
> In the end, it creates listeners and databases that hard-code the IP address
> of my machine, which is a temporary address assigned by DHCP. This,
> naturally, is useless to me.
>
> Does anyone know how I can get it to use the machine or DNS name of my
> laptop?
>
> Patrick Rusk
>
>

replace IP address by "localhost" (w/o the quotes)

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Regards,
Frank van Bortel