Path: news.easynews.com!easynews!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!isdnet!sn-xit-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Sybrand Bakker Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc Subject: Re: Oracle 8i Installer Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 06:47:20 +0200 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: Reply-To: postbus@sybrandb.demon-verwijderdit.nl References: <833afef6.0204041511.234818ff@posting.google.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.91/32.564 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Lines: 20 Xref: easynews comp.databases.oracle.misc:79696 X-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 21:44:04 MST (news.easynews.com) On 4 Apr 2002 15:11:06 -0800, joes@protex-intl.com (Joeteck) wrote: >We are having a problem trying to install Oracle 8i client on a some >Win2k pro workstations. Basically what happens is the Oracle install >just closes unexpectedly in the middle of the installation. It does >not freeze or report errors, just closes. The machine is a basic >white box PIII with 256MB ram. We tried installing on Win2k with and >without service packs installed and both same results. Anyone have >this problem or know of any hardware incompatibilities with Oracle 8i >installer? Depends on what is 'Oracle 8i client' 8.1.5, 8.1.6,8.1.7. The first one simply isn't certified against win2k. Only 8.1.7 is supported. Regards Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA To reply remove -verwijderdit from my e-mail address