Re: Oracle8i in XP different from Win98

"jnam" <jnam_at_sunnydale.com> wrote in message news:3c50f9a6.231250590_at_news...
> I have Oracle8i Personal edition installed in windowsXP as well as on
> a windows98 machine. I believe I installed from the same download file
> but on my XP machine I don't have the icon in the programs>oracle-
> orahome>database administration to start database/stop database as I
> do in my win98 machine.
>
> On XP I have the DBA studio but no start/stop database icons.
>
> Do I have different versions of Oracle8i? Or does Oracle8i install
> differently in XP? (doesn't seem likely)
>
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> jnam

According to OTN there's no version of Oracle currently supported on XP. But if you insist on loading 8i onto an XP machine I would offer the following advice:

Get the WinNT/2000 version. WinXP is based on the NT kernel, whereas Win98 is based on the Win9x kernel. If 8i makes any kernel level calls not supported you can run into problems. Since there are different versions for each kernel I hafta believe there are differences.

Good luck. Received on Sun Jan 27 2002 - 18:34:08 CST