From: "Ray Brizzi" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc References: Subject: Re: Problem installing Personal Edition for WIndows 98 Lines: 37 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 19:14:57 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.32.2.145 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 991854897 66.32.2.145 (Wed, 06 Jun 2001 12:14:57 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 12:14:57 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net X-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 12:13:00 PDT (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) I will try loading the Lite version to see if it works any better.... "Ray Brizzi" wrote in message news:u8vT6.2817$9m.210938@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net... > I am trying to install Personal Edition for Windows 98 under Windows ME. > > I unzip the downloaded package (psoracl81698.zip) eto a directory called > Orainst. I start running Setup.exe. > > There seems to be a problem with the directory structure. There are no > spaces in the source or directory path which was the only warning that I saw > in the installation doc. I have 1.5 GB available on the C drive. > > The two paths selected by the system are: > > C:\Orainst\STAGE\products.jar for source > and > C:\ORAINST\STAGE\COMPONENTS\ORACLE.SWD.JRE\1.1.7.24\1\DATAFILES\EXPANDED\JRE > \WIN32\BIN\..\\Oracle\Ora81 for the destination. > > When I continue at this point, I get a popup Error window that says: > > There was a problem in accessing the staging area. Please make sure the > specified values for 'Source' and 'Destination' are valid. > > It looks like the destination path may be too long, so I changed the > destination to a new directory I created called C:\Ora but I still get the > same error. > > Any ideas? Is the default source directory incorrect ? > > >