Path: news.easynews.com!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!nntp.kreonet.re.kr!news-xfer.nuri.net!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-06!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Sybrand Bakker Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc Subject: Re: Problems installing Oracle 9i on Win2k Server Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 18:54:54 +0200 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: Reply-To: postbus@sybrandb.demon.nl References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.92/32.572 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 30 Xref: newsfeed1.easynews.com comp.databases.oracle.misc:87667 X-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:53:59 MST (news.easynews.com) On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 10:29:46 -0600, "Trevor Bourget" wrote: >We are installing Oracle 9i Release 2 on Windows 2000 Server. We are using >the downloaded disks from the Oracle Website. Everything installs fine until >we get to the third disk and it raises an I/O error accessing the file >"Temp12". > >We tried retrying a few times as it seemed to continue until we noticed it >was just looping around until it hit the same file again. Ignoring the >error continued the installation but later the installation raised many >errors and failed. > >We retried the installation from scratch a few times and kept receiving the >same error. > >Any help to get past this installation error is much appreciated. > Java needs humongous amounts of temporary diskspace in the TMPDIR directory (the directory pointed to by this variable), usually the C-drive. Check your C-drive for lack of disk space. Hth Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA To reply remove -verwijderdit from my e-mail address