Re: Has anyone installed Oracle 8i on NT?

From: Van Messner <vmessner_at_bestweb.net>
Date: 2000/04/10
Message-ID: <AOsI4.1181$%L6.68435@monger.newsread.com>

If you use the Oracle installer an 8.1.5 install with a small sample database takes under an hour. I've done a dozen or more NT installs with no problems. Since you've tried a bunch of times, make sure you clean out everything by hand before you re-try on one of your machines. You are shutting down your other software while you run the install, right? On an NT server I wouldn't go for less than 128M of memory even for a modest database. And figure you'll lose the better part of a gig of disk. Below are typical instructions. Take a look and see if you missed anything.

Van

Oracle Server 8.1.5
1. I made a directory on the E drive E:\Oracle\Ora815, then put in the Oracle Enterprise Server release
CD-ROM. When prompted for an Oracle Home Name I used Orant815 and for a path I used
E:\Oracle\Ora815. DO NOT use an Oracle home of "Orant" - this is reserved for Designer/Developer.

2. When prompted for a product to install I chose Oracle Enterprise Edition
8.1.5
3. When asked I chose a custom install.  I used the pre-selected defaults

but changed these things:
I added under Net8 Products - Oracle SNMP Agent 8.1.5.0.0 I added under Oracle Utilities - Oracle for Windows NT Performance Monitor 8.1.5.0.0
I added under Oracle Installation Products - Oracle Universal Installer 1.6.0.9.0
Some things that were not included were:  Oracle Web Publishing Assistant
 Oracle SQLJ
 Oracle Documentation
 Oracle Administration Assistant for Windows NT 4. A message box appeared saying I had chosen to install advanced security and which authentication
services did I want. I did not select any authentication service. 5. I said yes when asked if I wanted to create a new (sample) database. 6. I was then asked for a global database name and SID. For the name I used ORCL.GLENHILL and for the SID I used ORCL 7. I chose not to install Legato storage manager (for now). 8. For protocols I chose to install TCP/IP, SPX and Named Pipes. I left out LU6.2
9. This install session is logged to
C:\Program Files \ Oracle \ Inventory \ logs \ installActions.log 10. Next I was placed into the Net8 Configuration assistant. For the listener name I chose "LISTENER" To
start I chose just the TCP protocol. I also chose to use just Net8 clients (not IIOP for now - the interorb
protocol that is used when clients are using the listener to access the database Java option. I may have to
come back and add this). I also chose port 1521 for the listener. And I chose to do just a single listener.
11. I chose not to configure naming methods for this server. One of the reasons to configure naming
methods is if the server will need to connect back to itself. I may have to come back and configure naming methods in the future. (Naming methods are used by Net8 to resolve a net service name to an address when attempting to connect a client to a server. They serve the same function that DNS servers do in making telnet or browser connections.) 12. After Net8 completed successfully I was thrown into the database configuration assistant where I chose
to do a custom install. Here are some of my choices. Type of database: hybrid
Concurrently connected users: 15
Database mode: dedicated server mode
Options to configure: all
Global Database Name: ORCL.GLENHILL
SID: ORCL
Init file: E:\Oracle\admin\ORCL\pfile\InitOrcl.ora Internal Password: oracle (all in lower case, if it ever matters) Control Files: E:\Oracle\oradata\ORCL\CtlOrcl1.ctl

     H:\Oracle\oradata\ORCL\CtlOrcl2.ctl Maximum Data Files: 254
Maximum Log Files: 32
Maximum Log Members: 3
Data files: In general I used the defaults but made pctincrease 0, maxextents
249 where possible and used the H drive for file copies. I made all the initial and next sizes powers of two where possible. Shared Pool Size (bytes): 53M
Block Buffers: 5000
Log Buffer Size (bytes): 32768
Processes: 150
Block Size (bytes): 8192
Trace File for User Files: E:\Oracle\admin\ORCL\udump Trace File for Background Files: E:\Oracle\admin\ORCL\bdump 13. After making my choices the database creation assistant attempted to create a database. During the
attempt to install Oracle JServer I got an ORA-00604 error. I said to ignore the error and to proceed. Three more errors followed which I also ignored.
The creation assistant finished with the usual passwords SYS - change_on_install

        System - manager
14. De-installation instructions are in the document in Programs / Oracle-Orant815 / Release Notes
Clean Machine instructions are in the same. 15. Using steps similar to those above I added a second database named INDI. 16. For both databases I did the general post-creation steps listed in the section Oracle/Installing/8.1.5 General Post-Installation Steps.

David Rawle <david.rawle_at_channel-a.com> wrote in message news:38F1F2DC.E11CB325_at_channel-a.com...
> I have been trying since September to get this pile to work.
>
> Has anyone ever got it working. Please help me if you have
>
> I have nearly 15 years RDBMS experience and I cannot get Oracle
> working...
>
> What gives?
>
> - David
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